Liudmyla NIEMETS1, Yurii KANDYBA2, Pavlo KOBYLIN3, Sergiy KOSTRIKOV4, Nataliya DOBROVOLSKAYA5 and Ievgeniia TELEBIENIEVA6
1,2,3,4,5,6 V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
5 Kharkiv Institute of Trade and Economics of the Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, Kharkiv, Ukraine
The paper identifies the factors of ethnic tourism development in Ukraine, particularly the complicated historical past, rich cultural heritage, presence of a diaspora of different ethnic groups in Ukraine, etc. The characteristic features of ethno-tourist regions of Ukraine have been found in the context of its historical-geographical and ethnographic zoning – Western, Bukovynian, Transcarpathian, Slobidsko-Naddnipryansky, Southern, Crimean ones. The ethno-tourist resources of Ukraine’s regions – monuments of folklore, historical and ethnographic festivals, monuments of material culture, folk arts and crafts, monuments of folk architecture, archeological objects are characterized. A point assessment of ethno-tourist resources of Ukraine’s regions has been made.