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∘ Medea Melashvili ∘ Nunu Kistauri ∘ Ketevan Kveladze ∘
INTERNATIONAL TOURISM AND SOME ISSUES OF ECONOMIC SECURITY RELATED IN THE WORLD AND IN GEORGIA

Summary

The paper discusses one of the steadily growing sectors of the world economy, such as international tourism: it has become an important source of income growth for tourist countries and thus raising the level of well-being of the population in recent years.

The paper mentions that international tourism is subject to many risks and is under various threats, such as ecological, economic, political threats. In the work, the economic threats of the development of the mentioned field, as well as the consequences of their impact on the economy, are presented, and the ways of their elimination are proposed.

The paper deals with the influence of international tourism, in particular, on the development of the tourism sphere of Georgia, which is based on quite interesting digital material.

Keywords: international tourism, economic threats, WTO, (World Trade Organization), UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization), WTTC (World Travel & Tourism Council), tourism in Georgia.

Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Paata Gugushvili Institute of Economics International Scientific C O N F E R E N C E S "ECONOMY – XXI CENTURY"

E ISSN 2587 - 4691	∘ Medea Melashvili ∘ Nunu Kistauri ∘ Ketevan Kveladze ∘ INTERNATIONAL TOURISM AND SOME ISSUES OF ECONOMIC SECURITY RELATED IN THE WORLD AND IN GEORGIA Summary The paper discusses one of the steadily growing sectors of the world economy, such as international tourism: it has become an important source of income growth for tourist countries and thus raising the level of well-being of the population in recent years. The paper mentions that international tourism is subject to many risks and is under various threats, such as ecological, economic, political threats. In the work, the economic threats of the development of the mentioned field, as well as the consequences of their impact on the economy, are presented, and the ways of their elimination are proposed. The paper deals with the influence of international tourism, in particular, on the development of the tourism sphere of Georgia, which is based on quite interesting digital material. Keywords: international tourism, economic threats, WTO, (World Trade Organization), UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization), WTTC (World Travel & Tourism Council), tourism in Georgia.