Abstract
The objective basis of tourism as a phenomenon of social life makes it a complex, multi-faceted object of scientific knowledge. Geography was one of the sciences that has studied tourism since it became a phenomenon of human existence and has initiated an innovatory scientific direction, that is tourism geography. We researched the theoretical approaches to the definition of the notion tourism geography, tourism studies and tourismology as integral notions in the scientific discourse regarding the study and research on tourism. We determined the main legal, organizational, natural, socio-economic, humanitarian and other basics of the geography of tourism which are orientated at provision of dynamic development in the sphere in general. Modern traditions and tendencies of the European school of tourism studies, novel scientific orientations in the block of adjacent disciplines were evaluated and the authors` interpretation of the functional structure of the direction “Tourism geography” are presented. We determined the integral character of the theory of tourism geography with its characteristic structural changes due to the multi-functionality of scientific directions, because tourism geography is a complex naturalecological-socio-economic system which covers geographical, ecological, socio-cultural, economic, political, organization-legal and other aspects, processes and phenomena is related to comfortable and safe recreation. The position of tourism geography in the system of sciences and scientific disciplines with updated notion-category apparatus were characterized. We determined the peculiarities of the structural-functional scheme of the touristic sphere (use of the natural and cultural-historical resources – providing touristic services – obtaining economic profits). We should note the increasing attention to the ecological problems of tourism geography, balance of the social, ecological, economic components at different levels of territorial organization of the touristic process.
Highlights
Tourism has a dominating and priority position regarding the vectors of the development of the economy and culture, and is one of the most promising directions of socio-economic development, because it demonstrates stable tempi of growing demand for it
A. and others., 2013; Krachylo N.P., 1987; Ljubitseva O.O., 2010) and foreign scientists (Alejziak, Winiarski, 2003; Kvartalnov, 2003; Mironenko, Tverdohlebov, 1981; Preobrazhenskij, 1988) in general terms had similar ideas on the division of tourism studies into scientific directions which formed on the boundary of economics, geography, history, philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, and law
Taking into account the peculiarities of the structural-functional scheme of the touristic sphere, the ecologisation of tourism geography leads to understanding of the processes of balanced public, ecological, economic components at different stages of territorial organization of touristic processes
Summary
Tourism has a dominating and priority position regarding the vectors of the development of the economy and culture, and is one of the most promising directions of socio-economic development, because it demonstrates stable tempi of growing demand for it. A. and others., 2013; Krachylo N.P., 1987; Ljubitseva O.O., 2010) and foreign scientists (Alejziak, Winiarski, 2003; Kvartalnov, 2003; Mironenko, Tverdohlebov, 1981; Preobrazhenskij, 1988) in general terms had similar ideas on the division of tourism studies into scientific directions which formed on the boundary of economics, geography, history, philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, and law.
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