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Roman Oleksenko, Nina Rybalchenko, Yevhenii Bortnykov, Andriy Konoh y Natalia Namliieva
Organizational and Economic Mechanism of the Ukrainian State Policy in the Tourism and
Hospitality Sector: State and Innovative Prospects
The central notion of the new approach to social structure has become
social integration, the goal of which is to create a «society for all,» in which
each individual, with his rights and responsibilities, plays an active role.
The gradual increase in attention to the individual’s interests as an object
of national policy in various spheres culminated in the adoption of the UN
Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development (1995), which proclaimed
the care for people as the main condition for sustainable development, one
of the most important goals of European social policy (Oleksenko et al.,
2017). Therefore, tourism, primarily domestic tourism, should be accessible
to all segments of the population.
The adoption of a special legislative act on social tourism, which should
create real guarantees for people (primarily vulnerable segments of the
population) to realize their right to tourism (Opanasiuk and Ohrimenko,
2018) can help to establish the social tourism priority. Moreover, in the
current conditions characterized by the economic system imbalance, new
risks have also emerged: the objective impossibility of implementing state
support for the tourist infrastructure functioning, as well as the decrease in
demand (due to the population’ real income reduction) (Zakharin, 2019).
Unfortunately, we have to admit that the legal status of social tourism
in Ukraine has not yet been dened. But the leveling of social tourism as
a factor in the development of Ukrainian society causes many negative
social consequences. First of all, it is about the growth of social tension
in the society, because the growth of incomes of the population «does not
keep up» not only with the growth of tourism services, but also with the
growth of other components of the standard of living of the population.
As a consequence, people’s need for recreation is the least satised as the
main range of social needs. Potential clients of social forms of tourism are
about 80% of the population, which, however, practices amateur ways of
recreation (Krapivina et al., 2018).
According to a survey of the demand for tourist products of dierent
social and age groups in Ukraine, as well as the sentiment of the tourist
dynamics in Ukraine, conducted by DART, the most popular type of
recreation among Ukrainians is the beach (29.8%) (SATD: 2021-05-31).
Meanwhile, dissatisfaction with the need for recreation deepens, if not
causes, other problems: the preservation and prevention of health, vitality,
healthy leisure, satisfaction of educational and cultural needs and the like.
Therefore, to coordinate the eorts to form a holistic and systemic
tourism policy in the conditions of socialization of the economy, it is
necessary to develop a social doctrine of tourism (Suppression et al.,
2020) The process of developing such a doctrine should involve a detailed
scientic analysis of the socio-economic situation, objective assessment of
previous experience in all areas of social life, study of external and internal
factors inuencing the course of social processes, analysis and borrowing