Sustainable Tourism: Features and Factors of Development in Risk Conditions

The article examines global risks associated with negative impact on the environment and their influence on sustainable economic development, identifies features and substantiates factors, principles and priority areas for the development of sustainable tourism. The tourism sector is an important part of the modern world economy. In the era of globalization, tourism contributes not only to the economic development of individual states, but is also the cause of geographical diversification, due to which the structure of international tourist flows undergoes changes. The above necessitates special attention to this topic and the identification of the formation of possible new promising tourist destinations. In addition, tourism as a component of the general economic system is sensitive to various types of risk in the political, economic, social and environmental spheres. Thus, the topic is becoming even more relevant for scientific research.