Monitoring of Eurointegration of Ukraine in the Tourism Sphere

Abstract

The basic indicators of tourism development in Ukraine are analyzed and identified its problems. Established, that the tourism industry in Ukraine is rapidly developing, below the global average, is due to annexation of Crimea and the Russian military aggression in the east, the low efficiency of the public administration and low level of government spending in tourism. It is shown the main directions of cooperation of Member States under the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU in Part «Tourism», concerning for the exchange of information, sustainable tourism development, promotion and development of tourism products and markets, training specialists and others. Defined priorities of the Action Plan for the implementation of the Association Agreement in the field of tourism in the 2014–2017: amending the Law of Ukraine «On Tourism», project the Strategy for Development of Tourism and Resorts 2025, harmonization of national standards with the International Organization for Standardization. A monitoring of the implementation of measures for the integration of Ukraine into the EU tourism sphere for 2014 – early 2017 in the following direc-tions are conducted: legislation, strategy of the development of tourism and re- sorts, licensing, standardization and certification, visa liberalization, cooperation in tourism. Emphasized, that one of the main challenges of European integration of countries in the tourism sector should develop regulations to attract foreign in- vestment, improving government funding, harmonization of qualification require- ments and standards of higher education for training in tourism.