Podlepina P. Influence of international tourism on sustainable development of developing countries

The dissertation is devoted to the development of theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of international tourism, scientific and applied substantiation of the patterns, results and prospects of the influence of international tourist services on the sustainable development of developing countries. Theoretical provisions for identifying the relationship between the impact of international tourism on the sustainable development of developing countries and optimizing the potential of international tourism services are summarized. The categorical apparatus for defining the concepts of the category «economic nature of international tourism services» is clarified, the author’s approach of complex disclosure of the definition of «sustainable development» as a scientific category in the center of which more than destroys it, contributes to the growth of human capabilities on the basis of humanistic orientation. Quantitative and qualitative parameters of global tourism services development were identified and systematized. GDP of countries, at the level of employment, calculate the average cost per tourist, determine the structure of industries involved in creating a tourism product in developing countries, justify the correlation of the dynamics of gross value added in the world economy in accordance with incoming tourism flow based on sustainable principles development. The scientific and methodological approach to determining the potential of the international tourism industry based on the index of competitiveness of the travel and tourism sector has been further developed. The concept of the impact of international tourism development on the sustainable development of developing countries is proposed, which allows to determine the principles of sustainable development strategy, substantiation of tourism development mechanism, and identifying ways to achieve the goal. The mechanism of state support for the development of competitive advantages of developing countries in the international tourism market, models of state influence on the development of tourism, strategy of sustainable and competitive tourism of developing countries, which allowed to determine areas and mechanisms of state regulation of tourism, including: economic, organizational, financial, managerial, which form the effective implementation of public policy.