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THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES: THEORY AND PRACTICE, V.77, # 1, 2020, pp. 51-64

It is impossible to correctly organize its statistics. In his research, Kosmanev made
an attempt to generalize methodological studies of tourist infrastructure and
formulate its concept, having previously established functional features, properties
and composition. The idea of the composition of the tourist infrastructure is
different, while there are complex and fragmentary options. An example of the
complex composition of tourist infrastructure: includes hotel services (the totality of
all accommodation facilities for the temporary stay of tourists), transport services
(mobile transport means, stationary devices of all kinds transport, legal conditions
for passenger transportation), catering, entertainment and entertainment and sports
and fitness services, excursion services, financial services, communication facilities
and systems, production of souvenirs and handicrafts, tourism and sports products,
retail, consumer services (Kosmanev, 2012: 5-12).

Although the transport industry provides the link between tourism generating and
destination regions the industry's role as an agent in destination development has
been largely overlooked. If the ability of tourists to travel to preferred destinations is
inhibited by inefficiencies in the transport system there is some likelihood that they
will seek alternative destinations. This paper outlines a transport cost model that
identifies the significance of transport as a factor in destination development as well
as in the selection of destinations by intending tourists (Prideaux, 2000: 53-63).

Seetaram studied the possible impact of the passenger tax, a tax on air travel, on the
demand for outbound tourism from the UK. Typically, the transportation aspect of
research in tourism economics is dealt with in tourism demand literature. Authors
treat transportation as a cost which hinders demand. It is accounted for by the
inclusion of proxies for transport in standard tourism demand models with the aim to
compute transport elasticities, which measure the responsiveness of demand to
changes in cost of travel (Seetaram, 2016: 203-206).

The problem of service quality in tourism is one of the most urgent in the
development of this sector of the national economy. In the market of tourist services,
quality of service is the most powerful weapon in the competition. Tourists, satisfied
with the service in hotels, restaurants, service bureaus, sanatoriums, tourist
complexes of various regions, become their active propagandists. They visit these
places many times, contributing to an increase in flows and creating a high
reputation for the areas they like. The quality of service significantly contributes to
the economic efficiency of tourism enterprises (Fernandez, 1985).

For example in Ireland (in Irish), the tourists’ most travelling areas are considered the
region that there are ancient times monument- dolmens (stone graves) ancient

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