Аннотация
In modern domestic and foreign literature there are many approaches to the concept of “tourism” and the classification of its types. Rural tourism is a special complex type of tourism, which is a form that combines organized and unorganized recreation of tourists in rural areas, familiarity with rural life, familiarity with the peculiarities of local agricultural natural use (professional and non-professional). Public interest in rural tourism was observed at the end of the twentieth century, in which the European organization Euroter stressed the importance of rural tourism for the development of agrarian regions, emphasizes the preservation of cultural values and the ecology of the village, the restoration of traditions and products of the area.