THE CONCEPT OF TERRITORIAL GASTRO-TOURISM SYSTEMS

Abstract

Ukrainian tourism is a complex system that contains a large number of subsystems. They can be classified in various ways, including territorial division. Thus, being the largest country in Europe, Ukraine has actually huge territories, which are divided into regions according to administrative, geographical, cultural and other features, thus forming territorial tourism systems. The scientific significance of the research topic lies in the need to generalise and systematise scientific experience on the histrionics of the development of socio-geographical discourse of territorial systems in tourism. Synergies of landscapes, culinary cultures of ethnic groups and territorial gastro-tourism systems. Filling the bottlenecks in tourism and recreation requires the development of a concept of a territorial gastro-tourism system using certain approaches and principles. Based on the drivers of the development of the territorial gastro-tourism system: agri-food heritage, gastronomic heritage, culinary cultures of ethnic groups, food identity markers, terroir, speciality, food biodiversity, sustainable food systems.