Introduction. The relevance of the work is predetermined by the need to develop a strategy for the development of business tourism in Ukraine, taking into account the trends in the world centers of business tourism and optimizing the ways of our country's entry into the global space of business tourism. This is all the more important because in the leading tourist regions of the world, business tourism has a high profitability and often plays a significant role in the budgets of states, including economically highly developed ones.
Methods. The methodological base of the study of the practice of conducting business and foreign economics and geographers and economics in the geography of world statehood, world economy and national studies. General scientific and special methods are used in the work: comparative, systematic analysis; statistical analysis - in the study of trends and dynamics of the development of the global market of tourist services; methods of observation, analysis and synthesis, evaluation – when determining the dynamics of the development of segments of international tourist services in the context of dimensions of sustainable development; methods of comparison, qualitative assessment.
Results. The basic concepts of the system of business tourism are considered and the directions of its organization are analysed. The economic, social and cultural factors influencing the development of business international tourism are listed. The study shows that the spatial structure of business tourism reveals a similar three-tier hierarchical structure. This commonality is predetermined by the closest relationships between business tourism and the general system of international tourism and the system of the world economy as a whole. At the same time, business tourism is not only their component, but also a function (and indicator) of their structure and development dynamics.
Discussion. The introduction of the main provisions of leading scientists will enhance the competitiveness of domestic firms specializing in the organization of business tourism, as well as the infrastructure serving it, to increase the validity of management decisions in the field of business tourism and related industries; will contribute to the formation of relations in the domestic market of business tourism within the framework of international standards. The above recommendations can be put into practice by creating a state program for the development and support of business tourism in the country. However, the problems of the impact of international tourism on the sustainable development of foreign economic relations of countries require further research on the basis of modern theoretical and methodical approaches to the latest imperatives of social and economic development.
Keywords: international tourism, business tourism, new economic relations, crisis phenomena in the sphere of business tourism.
