Changes in information technology have a great influence on people’s preferences and lifestyles. Smart devices and technologies have taken the conventional way of traveling into a smart tourism system. The aim of this paper is to examine smart tourism, the integration of different activities of different tourism service providers, and their interactions with tourists. It also finds out the smart tourism tools, how they are being used by different actors, how the tourist and the network perceived and interact with them for making up a smart tourism ecosystem, and finally how they create the sustainable value co-created services. This paper is qualitative in nature and used a holistic approach. The data were collected through interviews of 24 service providers and 50 service receivers, mainly tourists from the study area, Bangladesh. Study shows that there are three phases by which actors are communicating with each other comprising pre-service delivery, during-service delivery, and post-service delivery. Smart tourism tools are being used throughout the phases which eventually create value in co-created services with three pillars of sustainability (economic, socio-cultural and environmental). This study will contribute to the existing body of knowledge in the field of smart tourism, value co-creation, and sustainability.

The approaches to determining the nature of social capital and trust as its basis are systematized, forms of manifestation of the functioning of trust and social capital at different levels are considered, and the role of trust in the formation of social capital in the system of the global economy is explored.

The article examines impact of human resources availability in post-socialist economy on its rate of economic growth in conditions of high dependency on the import of intellectual labour products from developed countries. The thesis about meaningful constraints, which active involvement of European post-socialist countries in the international system of labour division impacts on the ability of such countries to overcome the lack of human assets in the medium term, is substantiated. Two legitimate reasons of such restrictions are identified in the article. A regular concentration of economic management functions that require the most highly skilled performers in economically developed countries is called the first cause. The institutional shortcomings of post-socialist countries, where social sphere was not transformed into a source of competitive advantage for national business is called the second cause.

The study deals with identifying trends in the labor market in Ukraine, which is significantly influenced by threatening external and internal factors. The authors prove in the article that the incentives to reform this market today are significantly weakened by the negative effects of the crisis, which covers all spheres of life — from the economy to health care. It was found that the negative trends of the world and national markets contribute to the decline in the quality of human capital of labor resources, worsen the structure of the national labor market. The multi-vector nature of the crisis leads to the formation of a multiplicative effect — its various aspects increase the influence of each other. As a result, the negative pressure of the crisis factors on the national labor market is increasing with growing pace. The authors prove that the old extensive approach of managers to the use of labor resources of Ukraine has outlived itself. The existing model and approaches to its reform given the current scale of threatening trends do not meet the criteria of effectiveness. Ukraine needs a new labor market model. The efforts of government officials and the influence of the business community should be aimed at forming a model whose goals will be: stabilizing the economic, social and political situation in Ukraine, reducing the risk of uncontrolled growth of social tensions, forming a flexible response to neutralize the effects of the crisis. It is pointed out that the lack or even slowdown of the reaction to the existing negative tendencies inherent in the labor market in Ukraine can cause significant and drastic social and political changes. The originality of the article is stipulated by the need to identify labor market trends under the influence of the crisis and the situation on the world labor market, identify factors that lead to the consolidation of an extensive labor market model in a permanent crisis, identify factors that contribute to this and negative consequences for the economy.

The article is devoted to the evaluating of prospects for the Ukrainian education economy qualitative transformation in the process of postwar recovery. In particular, the propensity of the Ukrainian population to invest in raising the level of education is assessed and the preferences for educational formats are specified, as an important prerequisite for updating the structure of higher education’s funding sources and the relative system of motives and incentives to increase its economic efficiency. The initial information was obtained based on the results of a sample survey conducted among the population of Ukraine affected by the war. The theoretical basis of the work was researches devoted to determining the role of the accumulation of human capital in the processes of expanding and updating the structure of national production. A high potential of expanding the solvent demand for short-term training programs, which will be provided with the active participation of potential employers, has been revealed, because 33.0% of the total number of respondents plan to change their profession, which mainly causes additional demand for educational services.