The development of tourism in Transcarpathia in the period of Czechoslovakia 1918 - 1938

Abstract

The article studies the history of tourism development in Transcarpathia within the period of  the 1918 end of 1938. The key factors, which influenced on the development of the most popular types of leisure and recreation, have been examined. The emergence of first travel organizations and travel routes,  the process of improvement in providing services to tourists, have been researched. Analysis of historical and geographical aspects of tourism development in Transcarpathia enables to find out significant potential of tourist resources for the development of tourist and recreational complex in the long term. It is evident that the key benefits of tourism development are defined by regional unique features and natural conditions of the region, compared with other areas of business performance. Statistical data indicates that the tourist industry in our region with its natural, historical and cultural resources is the most perspective in Transcarpathia. A study was made possible through the use of scientific methods of knowledge: analysis, synthesis, system, specific, historical and dialectical method. In the preferred scientific heritage historical methods of research: historical and genetic, historical and comparative, historical and synthetic, historical and diachronic, empirical analysis and more.