The article is devoted to the study of prospects for the development of legislation on rural green tourism. The urgency of the work is conditioned upon the urgent need for special legislation that would reflect the specific features of rural green tourism and would effectively develop this area to reduce unemployment, overcome poverty, increase incomes of the rural population by intensifying non-agricultural activities. The purpose of the study is to identify possible areas of development of legislation on rural green tourism on the basis of scientific and theoretical analysis of current and future regulations in this area and developments in legal science. The methodological basis of the study was the dialectical method of scientific knowledge, general scientific (formal-logical, method of analysis) and special-legal methods (formal-legal, comparative-legal). As a result of this study, proposals were developed to improve the terminology of legislation in the field of rural tourism. Namely, the necessity of replacing the term “rural green tourism” with the term “rural hospitality” in normative legal acts is justified, the use of the category “rural tourism” exclusively in the sense of one of the types of tourism, the specific feature of which is implementation in rural areas. To increase the effectiveness of legal regulation of rural hospitality, a proposal was made to form special legislation – the Law of Ukraine “On Rural Hospitality in Ukraine”. It has been proved that personal farms are the most potentially attractive subjects for the development of rural hospitality in Ukraine. For the practical implementation of this potential, changes are proposed to Part 1 of Art. 1 of the Law of Ukraine “On Personal Peasant Economy” on enabling private farms to use their property to provide rural hospitality services. It is proposed that to clearly distinguish between rural hospitality and rural tourism, the latter should be regulated by the Law of Ukraine “On Tourism” and other regulations in the field of tourism, adopted to implement the provisions of this law. The obtained conclusions can be used in formulating changes to the current legislation of Ukraine, will be useful when working on research on the specific features of the legal regulation of relations in the field of rural hospitality

This study investigates the problems of legal regulation of the safety of visitors – guests of rural estates during the provision of rural hospitality services. The relevance of this study is conditioned upon the urgent need to develop special legislation that would reflect the specifics of such a new area of agricultural diversification for Ukraine as rural hospitality, specifically one of the defining aspects for the development of this sphere – the safety of guests of rural estates. The purpose of this study was to characterize the state of legal support for the outlined area and formulate proposals for improving the legal regulation of the safety of visitors/guests of rural estates. The methodological framework of this paper included a set of general scientific and special legal methods of scientific cognition, namely dialectical, system-structural, formal logical, system analysis, and formal legal methods. As a result of the conducted study, the term “safety of rural hospitality” was defined in broad and narrow meanings, and the external and internal levels of safety in rural hospitality were also distinguished. The possibility of applying tourism legislation to regulate external security relations in rural hospitality was substantiated. The need to regulate internal security relations in rural hospitality in a special regulation on rural hospitality in the form of a law was proved. It is proposed to establish in this prospective regulation an imperative rule regarding the conclusion of a written agreement on rural hospitality services, and the substantial terms and conditions of such a contract were defined. A proposal was put forward to develop a model agreement for the provision of rural hospitality services. To streamline the safe rendering of services within rural hospitality to attract guests of a rural estate to perform agricultural work, it was proposed to develop safety instructions for attracting guests of rural estates to perform agricultural work. The obtained conclusions will help in the development of legislation on rural hospitality and can also be used in theoretical and applied scientific research on the specific features of legal regulation of relations concerning rural hospitality.