TOURISM INFLUENCE ON THE WORLD ECONOMY

Authors

  • Marina Metreveli Author
  • Bela Khotenashvili Author

Abstract

Tourism in is one of the leading and dynamic field. Many of the country's economy with tourism leading role in filling the state budget, gross domestic product and more job creation. Tourism influences on the fields of economy, such as transport, communications, construction, agriculture, industry, consumer goods and others. For one’s fart the following factors influences on the development of tourism: demographic, natural‐geographic, socio‐ economic, historical, cultural, religious, political, legal and scientific‐technical. It is also important for the development of the tourism sector of the country's population living standards, the length of free time, an increase in the desire to accommodate with the needs of the cultural, economic, political stability and so forth. Thus, tourism acts as a catalyst for socio‐economic development.

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Published

2015-09-15

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How to Cite

Metreveli, M., & Khotenashvili, B. (2015). TOURISM INFLUENCE ON THE WORLD ECONOMY. Collections of Scienctific Works of GTU, 4(498), 18-25. https://papers.4science.ge/index.php/cswgtu/article/view/246