The indicators of business tourism reflect the background of a national economy support, the openness of business environment in general. The article discusses the relevant problems of tourism in Ukraine in accordance with the global trends in the world services market. The research covers statistical observations, contradictions, and challenges in the formation of a model of recreational planning and, using the prominent experience of tourism-leading countries in the national strategies, highlights advantages and disadvantages of construction of large-scale convention centers as elements of business tourism. Tourist flows for Ukraine are estimated as rather unstable, which substantiates the necessity of monitoring of the national tourism market. The creation of an integrated warehouse for tourism data is needed, either for governmental institutions, local administrations, or private companies, which could receive updated information on the state of the market. Public–private partnership in this will enable access to extra funds in order to use IT technologies in tourism warehouse maintenance, while the private participants will enrich their market research. The ability to evaluate foreign economic operations in trade in services is intended to solve the break in information support of tourism development in Ukraine.

The article is aimed at studying the potential of the Autonomy Scorecard instrumentarium (based on the EUA methodology), the world ranking methodologies for assessment of autonomous, innovatively active universities and their effectiveness. The relevance of the research is increasing due to the transition to a new generation university with a change in models (from the academic model (University 1.0) to an innovatively active research model (University 2.0) and an innovatively active model of entrepreneurial university (University 3.0). As a result of the study, 1) the features and limitations of the assessment of the components of university autonomy of the innovatively active research and entrepreneurial universities using the Autonomy Scorecard instrumentarium (based on the EUA methodology) are defined and systematized; 2) an in-depth analysis is carried out and recommendations on the possibilities and/or limitations of both the academic and the independent ratings for evaluating the effectiveness of autonomous, innovatively active universities are provided. The next steps of research are: 1) development of a system of indicators of autonomy of university, which will take into account the peculiarities of the activities of innovatively active research and entrepreneurial universities; 2) taking into account the components of academic freedom (according to the AFi index) in the external assessment of the effectiveness of autonomous, innovatively active universities.