Ensuring the Development of Social Tourism in Ukraine

Abstract

The article is aimed at analyzing the features of development of social tourism and its structure, as well as elaborating models of development of social tourism in Ukraine taking into view possible forms and methods of the State support. The article explores the components of development of social tourism, its structure is elaborated. The latter contains such components as: objects of social tourism; participants in social tourism; social tourists. The author defines interests of the interested counterparties (the State, sanatorium-resort enterprises, consumers) in development of social tourism in the sanatorium-resort sphere and measures to maintenance the balance of interests. The conceptual variants of development of social tourism in Ukraine are analyzed and stages of implementation of the most perspective variant are elaborated.

Keywords

• social tourism
• financing
• inclusive tourism
• sanatorium-resort sphere
• conceptual model of development of social tourism