INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK OF IMPROVING OWNERSHIP RELATIONS OF RECREATION AND TOURISM RESOURCES IN UKRAINE

Abstract

Development of market relations in all spheres of the national economy, including recreation and tourism sector, is determined by development of ownership relations of the fixed assets, current assets and natural resources. In the recreation and tourism business, technogenic factors of production relate mainly to the ownership of business entities, but natural resources used by these entities are of the state and municipal ownership; this lays ground for the conflict of interest. The lack of the unified state policy in the sphere of development of relations concerning appropriation of natural resources on the basis of the functioning of certain forms, property rights and restrictions which relate to the forms, rights and subjects of ownership, leads to the fact that users of natural resources receive economic benefits without the "appropriation" of negative environmental damages, and society receives negative internal and external conflicts, that is, "appropriates" social, ecological and economic losses. This can be explained by the fact that powers to manage the recreation and tourism activities and use of natural resources in this sphere, are scattered among various government bodies, which activities do not provide an eco-systemic and a poly-functional approach to the use of recreation and tourist resources. There is also no scientifically substantiated policy concerning a functioning of ownership relations of the recreation and tourism resources and mechanism of realization of advantages depending on the forms and rights of ownership.
The situation leads to reducing the replenishment of the state and local budgets and further efficient allocation of funds received from the use of the nationwide ownership of natural resources; it prevents the identification of effective subjects of ownership.
The authors propose to extend the powers of the Department of Tourism and Resorts of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, or establish, as an alternative, a body to coordinate the use of natural resources and development of recreation and tourist activities based on redistribution of competences, rights, duties and responsibilities of the existing structures to form the unified state policy to improve the use of recreation and tourist resources and improve the efficiency of recreation and tourist activity.