Popov O. The development of tourism and excursion business in the Crimea (1923 - 1941)

The object of study - the process of origin and development of tourism-excursion business in the country prior to the beginning of Great Domestic war. The purpose of study is the realization of the complex analysis of activity of the Soviet tourism-excursion establishments of the inter-military period in the Crimean ASSR is done, and also rating of efficiency of this activity and degrees of its connection with processes, which occurred in the country. The methods used in the research are: structural-system, heuristic, typological, critical, problem-chronological, statistical-analytical, descriptive, historical-comparative, synchronous. The practical value of the received results consists in their use for a creation of generalizing scientific works on a history of domestic tourism, and also for preparation special courses in high and average special educational institutions, which prepare the experts of a tourism-excursion structure. In the thesis, for the first time, the attempt of complex analysis ofactivity of native tourist-excursion establishments of the inter-military period in the Crimean ASSR is done. On the example of the Crimean region the main functions, which were executed by domestic and foreign tourism in the USSR in the first decades of existence of the Soviet power are considered.