ON THE ESSENCE OF THE DEFINITION OF “CULTURAL TOURISM”

This article is devoted to the analysis of the definition of the concept of “cultural tourism”. The article presents the author s development of the definition of cultural tourism. In 1996, experts from the European Association for Tourism and Leisure Education (ATLAS) proposed two definitions of cultural tourism: “technical” and “conceptual”. The issues of hypothetical and down to earth ponder of the nature of cultural tourism, determination of its substance, put and part within the socio-economic and political life of society are given to the research of many worldwide teach for the study of tourism and leading foreign scientists. Since then, cultural heritage has been interpreted as historical, military, literary, artistic, and although the term “cultural tourism” includes acquaintance with all the sights, it is more closely associated with the artistic heritage (art, architecture).