The Review of International Regulations in the Field of Sustainable Tourism Development

The conception of sustainable development applies to all spheres of human activities since natural environment, which undergoes changes all the time, constitutes space of life for human race. One of human activities which integrates many spheres of socio-economic life is tourism.This paper is committed to the analysis of regulations concerning the issue of sustainable tourism, beginning from 1993 until the publications of 2005. The author made the attempt of identification of changes in the approach to the problems of sustainable tourism in international context. The other aim was to indicate the main problems which impede the realization of the concept of eco-development in relation to tourism