The study was conducted to identify the environmental component in the development of agrotourism and its impact on the psychological state of society in the COVID-19 pandemic. The experience of European countries shows the environmental, economic, and social benefits of agrotourism. The methodological basis of the study is the general scientific methods of cognition and social processes (analysis, synthesis, generalization, classification) together with sociological methods of obtaining empirical data. The National Tourism Organization of Ukraine has declared 2020 as the year of green rural tourism, an important component from which agrotourism arises. It is concluded that, la peculiarity of the development of agrotourism in Ukraine at the current stage is the acquisition of innovative forms of organization according to the growing needs of consumers, the efficient use of the natural, ecological, socioeconomic, and historical-cultural potential of the territory and the achievement of the required level of profitability. The situation of crisis and instability is accompanied by the presence of uncertainty associated with the COVID-19 pandemic; the need to form the concept of tourism development 4.0; introduction of ICT and development of innovative technologies in agrotourism in rural areas; training of professionals in the field of agrotourism.

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.

The purpose of the work is to analyze the transformation and efficiency of the organizational and legal mechanism of Ukraine's state policy in the field of tourism and hospitality. Methods of grouping, modeling, and forecasting, methods of theorization and historical formalization, as well as methods of analysis, comparison, sampling, and description of the system were used to substantiate scientific principles and approaches for the development of organizational and legal mechanisms of Ukrainian state policy in the field of tourism and hospitality. In addition, the study identifies the conceptual foundations of the organizational and legal mechanism of Ukraine's state policy in the field of tourism and hospitality, which corroborates the importance of updating national legislation, its unification with international, including European, improving the Tourism and Resorts Strategy of Ukraine. As contributions of the research andoutline the objectives and prioritymeasures of the state policy in the field of tourism and hospitality, the strategic tasks of the state policy in this area are formulated, namely: to ensure progress towards the formation of a unique tourist space with other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).