CATEGORIAL NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISM

The article systematizes the main approaches to defining the category of "international tourism" on the basis of the analysis of the definition of this notion by experts in the field of tourism as well as by specialized agencies. Specifically, we propose to define such approaches as the legal, economic, based on migration and socio-cultural ones. The appropriateness of dividing the economic approach into two groups, such as a kind of economic activity and a form of international economic relations is substantiated.