Martseniuk L. Innovative development of passenger companies through the organization of railway tourism.

Innovative development of passenger companies through the organization of railway tourism. Object – the process of innovative development of passenger companies through the organization of railway tourism in conditions of dynamic changes of external and internal environment. Goal – to develop a theoretical and methodological basis and methodical approaches and practical recommendations for the innovative development of passenger companies through the organization of railway tourism in Ukraine. Methods – general scientific and specific; of comparative, system, statistic analyses; economic mathematical. Novelty – it is for the first time the concept of innovation development of a passenger company, mechanism of innovative development of passenger companies, scientific and methodical approach to optimization of processes of innovative development of passenger companies in the organization of railway tourism, system of organizational and functional provision of innovative development have been developed and offered. Results – the conceptual-categorical apparatus of the theory of innovative development, the method of determining the interdependence of innovative development of passenger companies from the prospective number of potential consumers of rail tourism services, the scientific and practical approach to the organization of rail tourism based on the methods of determining the total time of tourist trips by narrow railways, the strategy of innovation development of passenger companies, theoretical and methodological foundations of innovation development the scientific and methodical approach to the definition of the economic efficiency of rail tourism to provide innovative development of passenger companies, the methodical approach to managing the marketing activities of passenger companies, the scientific and practical approach to the development of optimal forecast scenarios of innovative development of passenger companies in the direction of rail tourism, recommendations on possible ways innovative development of passenger companies. Introduced – at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Transcarpathian Regional State Administration, tourist enterprises and in the educational process. Branch – economy.