Mechanisms for ensuring the environmental safety of tourist destinations

State Institution “Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas”, Institute of Natural Sciences and Tourism, Department of Tourism, 15 Karpatska str., Ivano-Frankivsk, 79019, Ukraine

^* Corresponding author: alenapobigun@gmail.com

Abstract

Modern tourism is a sector of the economy that is developing very fast, for the last 10 years the growth was 25%. According to UNEP and the WTO, tourism is seen as a growing sector in contrast to the manufacturing sector. According to experts, the growth rate of the tourism industry will remain high, although global and regional structures of tourism change over the years (in recent years due to terrorism, the development of various diseases, natural disasters, pandemics, etc.). In 2019, about 1,500 million international trips were made. The same data indicate that the growth of tourism is due to developing countries. In countries with weak regulation of the market economy, tourism development can become a real threat to the quality of the environment. Therefore, the further development of tourism, in general, is possible only through its greening and finding a balance between economic and social development, taking into account environmental factors.