Green tourism development in conditions of forming of consolidated territorial communities
Nowadays tourism industry is only fifth in Ukraine by the component of budget revenues and its importance should grow significantly due to such objective preconditions as beneficial location of Ukraine in the center of Europe, availability of significant tourism and recreation capacity, favourable climate, rich flora and fauna and numerous landmarks of global level. For Ukraine rural green tourism in conditions of forming of consolidated territorial communities is a new phenomenon and requires the range of activities for its intensified development. Indeed, the priority of rural green tourism development in Ukraine is stipulated by the urgent need to solve socio-economic problems of contemporary villages. The paper aims to define the conditions and research the processes of green tourism development in conditions of forming of consolidated territorial communities. The paper characterizes the perspectives of green tourism development in rural settlements. In particular, it outlines the problems and perspectives of green tourism development in consolidated territorial communities. Endogenous capacity and opportunities of its use in the development of green tourism are defined. Green tourism is determined to be an additional factor of budget revenues in consolidated territorial communities. Global experience is analyzed and the perspectives of the use of global practices in the development of green tourism are outlined. SWOT-analysis of rural green tourism development is carried out. The paper defines top-priority regions for the development of rural green tourism. The authors emphasize that green tourism can play the role of a catalyst of economy structural changes, provide demographic stability and solve socio-economic problems emerging in the course of forming of consolidated territorial communities.