Rural Tourism within the Sustainable Development Goals: the Case of Ukraine

Hanna Shevchenko,Mykola Petrushenko,J.V Andrei,D Dusmanescu,A Turek Rahoveanu,V Erokhin,N Staurskaya,M.C Dragoi,J Subić

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20219501004

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https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20219501004

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Research background: rural tourism is an economic and environmental activity that fits harmoniously into the concept of sustainable and inclusive development. In Ukraine, it is called rural green tourism, but in practice not all aspects of it can meet the Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Purpose of the article: to analyze the relationship between the structures of the rural tourism goals and the SDGs, to demonstrate the evolution, possibilities of the development on the example of Ukraine’s rural tourism, especially in the framework of the European Green Deal. Methods: factor analysis – when studying the structure of the rural tourism goals and the factors that affect it, as well as when comparing it with the structure of other sustainable activities; elements of graph theory – in the graphical analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals decomposition in their projection into the plane of rural tourism. Findings & Value added: the structure of the rural green tourism goals in Ukraine have been harmonized with the Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Sustainability factors have been identified that allow the tourism and recreation sphere in the medium and long term perspective not only to form a competitive market for relevant services, but also to serve as an important component of the inclusive development. Factors of tourism sphere transformation due to the coronavirus pandemic are taken into consideration. The concept of the phased programming in sphere of rural tourism in Ukraine within the framework of the European Green Deal 2030 and 2050 has been improved.

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Rural tourism is the object of transdisciplinary research and the plane of practical implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals [1]
Factors of tourism sphere transformation due to the coronavirus pandemic are taken into consideration
The analysis of the relationship between the Sustainable Development Goals and the goals of rural green tourism has five stages – in Fig. 1, which presents a graph of the sustainable development of rural green tourism V(G)={1,2,..,35}

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Rural tourism is the object of transdisciplinary research and the plane of practical implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals [1]. From a scientific point of view, rural tourism is a multifaceted activity, the study of which requires integrated and integrated approaches [2, 3, 4], the justification of its economic goals [5, 6, 7], the disclosure of its social side [8, 9], the priority of its natural and ecological aspects [10, 11]. The scientific search for additional opportunities to expand the relationship between environmental and social aspects of rural tourism can increase the potential for the Sustainable Development Goals. From the point of view of consumers it is first of all about the recreational function of rural tourism [14, 15]

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