E-tourism and social media in tourism and hospitality

Tourism is a large sector of the economy. All developed countries of the world have long been interested in its development. In the world economy, tourism has taken a leading position, competing only with oil production. In modern domestic and foreign literature, many approaches to the definition of the concept of "tourism" have been worked out. These approaches are based on various characteristics and can be combined into several groups: - tourism as temporary movement of people, their location outside the permanent habitat and temporary stay at the site that is of tourist interest; - tourism as a complex socio-economic system, the basis of which is a diversified production complex, called the tourism industry; - tourism as a segment of a market economy, in which various enterprises of the economic complex interact to offer a product that satisfies the tourist interest; - tourism as temporary visits of citizens and stateless persons in their spare time from their permanent place of residence to health, cognitive, professional, sports, religious, business, educational and other purposes for a period of at least 24 hours and not more than 6 months and without engaging in paid activity in the place of temporary stay.