Tourist Demand and Supply in Transcarpathia

Abstract

Abstract. In the last one or one and a half decades significant changes have taken place in the system of tourism of Transcarpathia, also concerning its regulation, and the internal demand started to develop. Tourism has become a stable income source of the budget, ensuring a direct return of 1.5-1.6 per cent and an indirect return of 9 per cent for the country’s GDP. Even though the development of the tourist industry was hindered by several powerfully emerging problems, such as the economic crisis of 2008–2009 or the negative sequels of 2013–2015 political, economic and military events in the state. The aim of the present study is to reveal the most important changes in the tourism of Transcarpathia and also to mark out the directions and steps of its development.