ACCESSIBLE TOURISM: EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE AND UKRAINIAN ASPECTS

Abstract

Formulation of the problem. Accessible tourism is an important but under-researched area in tourism studies. There are also problems regarding its definition and concepts because of different approaches within the scientific world. However, the accessible tourism is the basis of the modern tourism because of the common generally accepted trends of equality and tolerance of modern world. Accessible tourism is extremely important for Ukraine in the context of its integration into the European Union. Analysis of recent research and publications. The group of domestic and foreign scientists, such as D. Buhalis, T. Coles, S. Darcy, T. Dickson, O. Ivanova, E. Michopoulou, L. Naumenko, M. Senkiv, G. Shaw, L. Slatvinska, M. Zsarnoczky and others made a significant contribution to the study of the issue of barrier-free environment and accessible tourism. However, the issue of forming a model of accessible tourism for affected by the war groups of tourists remains relevant. Setting objectives. The purpose of the article is to systematize the approaches to defining the concept of “Accessible Tourism” and to develop the model of accessible tourism for affected by the war groups of tourists that can be the basis for the integration of domestic tourism into accessible tourism of Europe. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were solved: to study the genesis of accessible tourism category; to establish the peculiarities of accessible tourism; to outline the benefits of accessible tourism; to classify the groups of tourists with special needs; to identify the complementary components of the proposed model.