Tourist Functions of Large Cities (Case Study: Kharkiv City, Ukraine)

The present paper aimed to investigate the notion of "city", "urban space", and the "urban tourism". An example of a large city presents main elements of a structural-logical scheme for a geospatial research on the tourist market. Main functions of city were analyzed, in particular, the tourist function of a large city with modern signs of tourism development in Kharkiv city. The research indicated dynamics of number of tourists from Kharkiv region according to the tourism activity during 2000-2016 and dynamics for number of tourism activity in Kharkiv region for during 2011-2016. Kharkiv is a city where is expected to be a metropolis and "smart city". The research presented prior directions of tourist development in Kharkiv, and revealed main problems of the tourism development in the city. It highlighted main tasks for putting Kharkiv at the international and national levels as an attractive city for tourists.