Analysis of classification of tourist multiplicator and its modern interpretation

Abstract

The article considers the tourist multiplier’s various classifications based on the materials of domestic
and foreign scientists and researchers. It was found that the tourism multiplier is the ratio of changes
in one of the key economic indicators to changes of tourist expenses and is accompanied by a number
of other positive trends. Also, it has been determined that the indirect impact of tourism (the multiplicative
effect of tourism) is much wider and deeper in its socio-economic nature and has a large number
of indirect effects, and its combined effect far exceeds the direct economic and social effect. After the
research of the works of foreign and domestic authors not only in tourism, but also in other scientific
fields, primarily economic theory, as well as for detailed and comprehensive consideration of the content
of the tourist multiplier, modern classification of the multiplier effect in tourism and tourist multiplier
was proposed, allowing deeper understanding of the essence and significance of the phenomenon under
study. Based on proposed classification, criteria were identified, such as the main types, degree of complexity,
direction of action, nature of presentation, scale of manifestation, cause of occurrence, time of
development of tourist and recreational activities, forms of tourism, form of presentation and degree of
openness of the tourist destination economy