ISSN 2617-2909 (print) Journal of Geology, ISSN 2617-2119 (online) Geography and Journ. Geol. Geograph. Geoecology Geology, 29(2), 364–376. Journal home page: geology-dnu-dp.ua doi: 10.15421/112032 Yulia A. Olishevska Journ. Geol. Geograph. Geoecology, 29(2), 364–376. Murals as the newest tourist resources: the case of Kyiv Yulia A. Olishevska Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine,
[email protected] Received: 03.12.2019 Abstract. The relevance of studying the murals is that the murals allow to diversify the Received in revised form: 19.11.2019 tourist offer of the capital. The purpose of this publication is to analize the development Accepted: 17.01.2020 of the murals and the opportunity of using them as a new type of tourism resource. One of the subjects of the study is to carry out a retrospective analysis of the existing collection of Kyiv’s murals and to substantiate their use in the organization of excursion routes in order to inform tourists. During the study of the murals, the creation of the route allows to track the change in the image of the urban envi- ronment under the influence of street art. In the process of researching the murals as a tourist resources of cities, we have introduced the term “conceptual tourist resources”, which in our opinion most accurately reflects their semantic charge. Murals are the alternative resources towards traditional tourism resources (natural, historical, cultural, socio-economical or socio-historical) that are widely used in the classifications of leading researchers in the tourism industry (Kvartal’nov V., Smal’ I., Beidyk O., Mal’s’ka M., Kuzyk S., Liubit- seva O., Pankova Ye., Stafiichuk V., etc.).