Keyword: «tourist flows»

This authors describes and systematized the main factors that influence the effective development of the tourism industry. Particular attention is drawn to the concept of tourism, given the competitiveness of the economy. There are examples of the influence of these factors in different countries.

Globalization and integration of economic, political and information space have led to changes in the tourist area. To study and understand the tourist space tourism it should be considered as a system, i.e. the inter-connection of geographical, social and productive systems. The paper describes the elements and relation-ships of tourism, also in terms of its regulation and management. Inhomogeneity of tourist space allows to make its typology taking into account tourist risks.

Based on the data of the National Statistics Committee, an analysis of the dynamics of the main indicators of the tourism industry in Belarus is carried out, the contribution of tourism to the economic sphere is estimated.

The article deals with the most important problem of tourist activity associated with leveling the influence of seasonality on the formation of tourist flows. One of the ways to increase demand in the seasonality is the organization of event tourism. It is shown that the organization of event events provides an increase in the attractiveness of tourist destinations in the low season.