Clasterization tendences of Ukraine's tourism sphere and way out of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis

The article considers the clustering trends in ukraine's tourism sector, aimed at a further rise of the
tourism industry, overcoming its negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and achieving
sustainable development. The need to create tourism clusters and other topics on the organization
of tourism with state executive authorities as well as professional tourism associations on
attracting investment and providing institutional and consulting assistance to small tourism
enterprises is being investigated. The foreign experience was analyzed, as well as the distribution
of tourist groups in Ukraine by tourist types in the period 2019-2020. Method: analysis and
synthesis, systematization of materials, historical and logical, comparative, systemic and structural,
which allowed to study the trends in the tourism industry. Conclusions. The grouping of the sphere
of tourism in Ukraine must be developed under the close attention of the government, state and
local authorities, public figures, civil society, companies, because it requires not only the
containment of the pandemic, but also the development of forms of tourism competitiveness,
investment in this industry, the provision of jobs for workers dismissed during the pandemic, the
use of the most advanced innovative technologies for the development of creative tourism
industries, which will help to get the industry out of the crisis.