ГЛОБАЛЬНА АНГЛІЙСЬКА МОВА ЯК ЗАСІБ ТУРИСТИЧНОГО ДИСКУРСУ

Objective. The objective of the article is to report to readers the importance of global English in the tourism discourse and analyze borrowings from English as a global language to many other languages. Methods. Methodological basis of the present research presupposes the following kinds of analysis: comparative, descriptive and analytical; analysis and synthesis of scientific popular scientific, methodical and educational literature on the problems of tourism discourse and and global English. Results. The role of English as a medium of tourist discourse, as well as different approaches to the concept of «global English» are shown. The notion of tourism discourse as a separate type of discourse and its main characteristics are defined. The situation of the English language in the tourism sector is analyzed. The issue about the type of vocabulary which is used in the tourism discourse is stated, through the examples of vocabulary from the hotels sites of Ukraine, Germany and Slovakia. The influence of tourism in general on the economy of countries is specified.