Normative and Legal Regulation of Documentation Service of Tourist Activity

Citing official statistics on the share of the tourism industry in the world economy, the author connects the dynamics of its volume with the influence of positive or negative factors and pays attention to the dependence of positive or negative dynamics of such share on the level of state institutionalization of tourism in general and degree of standardization of documentation support of tourist activity as a component of institutionalization. Determining the state of regulatory and legal regulation of documentation of tourist activities as the purpose of the study caused by the subject need, manifestation of which is the professional scientific interest of the author as a teacher of the academic discipline «Documentation of the Activities of Tourism Organizations» in the preparation of bachelors in the educational-professional program in the specialty 242 Tourism, as well as the estimated probability of using the results of the study in the educational process. The author substantiates the absence among the works on documentation in general and documentation of the activities of tourist organizations in particular research exactly the normative-legal regulation of documentation of tourist activity. Based on the classification of management functions into general and special and the dependent division of documentation into general and special, the author structurally builds research in two areas: normative-legal regulation of general documentation of tourist activity and normative-legal regulation of special documentation of tourist activity. In both areas of the study, more than two dozen legislatives, by-laws and state standards of both general and special action were analysed. As a result of the research, the author determines the level of normative-legal regulation of the general documentation of tourist activity to be optimally sufficient. Along with this, according to the author, normative-legal regulation of special documentation support of tourist activity requires systematization, classification, unification, standardization if not at the level of state, then at least at the level of branch standards. In this regard, the author considers that the State Agency for Tourism Development of Ukraine should be more active in solving this problem.