TOURISM: TRADITIONS OF HOSPITALITY AND CULTURE

Hospitality — one of the fundamental concepts of human civilization — has long turned into an industry that employs many millions of professionals. The hospitality industry unites tourism, hotel and restaurant business, catering, recreation and entertainment, organization of conferences and meetings. Mentions about the first enterprises of the hospitality industry, which provided both accommodation and catering services, taverns, can be found in manuscripts that scientists attribute to the era of ancient Greece and ancient Rome.