Film tourism as an innovative direction of world and Ukrainian tourism development

The article studies the features of film tourism as an innovative form of cultural and educational tourism. The relationship between the development of the global film industry and this type of tourism is analysed. The different types of impact of film tourism on tourist destinations and countries in general are characterised. The methodology is based on general scientific and special research methods, including: analysis, synthesis, generalisation, retrospective analysis and geographical research methods. Scientific novelty is a comprehensive study of film tourism as an innovative direction of development of world tourism and its impact on various aspects of life in the settlements where it has developed. The authors of the article present their vision of the impact of film tourism on the surrounding anthropogenic and natural environment. The peculiarities of the development of film tourism in Ukraine are examined. Conclusions. Film tourism is an innovative and promising area of global tourism development. It has a strong base for development in many countries of the world, both natural and artificially created, and its undoubted advantage is that the list of film attractions and destinations is expanding with every successful film premiere. Cinema tourism can be attractive to different age groups of tourists, but they are all united by a generally high level of education, relatively high incomes and a penchant for cultural leisure. The development of film tourism has a positive impact on both tourist destinations and countries.