The main aim of the Journal of Geology, Geography and Geoecology is to publish high quality research works and provide Open Access to the articles using this platform. Collection of scientific works publishes refereed original research articles and reviews on various aspects in the field of geological, geographical and geoecological sciences. Journal materials designed for teachers, researchers and students specializing in the relevant or related fields of science. Journal included in the list of professional publications, you can publish the main results of dissertations for the degree of doctor and candidate of geological sciences. The scope of distribution: international scientific journal. All published articles will be assigned DOI provided by Cross Ref. EDITORIAL BOARD Members of the editorial board: Professor (mult.), Dr. hab., Harald G. Dill, Dr.h.c in Editor-in-Chief: economic geology (additional focal disciplines: applied Associate professor, Ph.D., Manyuk Volodymyr, Assoc. sedimentology/ geomorphology, technical mineralogy), Prof. of Department of Earth Sciences, Oles Honchar Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz University, Mineralogical Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine; Department, Hannover, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]; E-mail: [email protected]; tel. +49-(0) 511 643 2361. tel.: +067 947 45 04; +095 824 61 77. Professor in Biostratigraphy-Micropaleontology, D.Sc., Karoui – Yaakoub Narjess, Carthage University, Deputy Editors: Faculty of Science of Bizerte (Departament of Earth Professor, Dr. hab., Andrzej Tomasz Solecki, Scientific Science), Jarzoura, Bizerte,Tunisia Head of the team of WS Atkins-Polska Sp. z o.o. experts E-mail: [email protected]. preparing the report on uranium metallogeny, Institute of Research Fellow William A.P. Wimbledon, Dept. 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Executive Editor: Ph.D., MSc., Afsoon Moatari-Kazerouni, Geology Professor, Dr. Sc., Sherstyuk Natalya Petrivna, Oles Lecturer Geology Department - Rhodes Honchar Dnipro National University, Head of Department University Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africane, of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Dnipro, Ukraine; E-mail: [email protected]; E-mail: [email protected]; tel.+38-096-124-15-35. tel: +27 (0)46-603-8618 Professor in Geology, Dr.Sc., Abderrazak El Albani, Associate professor, Ph.D., Maniuk Vadym, Assoc. Université de Poitiers, Laboratory IC2MP, Poitiers, Prof. of Department of Geography Oles Honchar Dnipro France, E-mail: [email protected]; National University, Dnipro, Ukraine; tel. +33 (0)5.49.45 39 26 E-mail: [email protected]; tel.: +38 098 290 80 69; +38 066 270 14 48. Associate Professor, lIya V. Buynevich, Temple University, College of Science and Technology Professor, Dr. Sc., Kroik Anna Arkadyevna, Oles Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Honchar Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine; E -mail: [email protected]; Philadelphia, USA, E-mail: [email protected], tel.: +38 095 149 65 50. tel: 215-204-3635 Professor, Dr. Sc., Prikhodchenko Vasiliy Fedorovich, Prof., Dr. Sc., Mokritskaya Tatiana, Oles Honchar Dean of the Faculty of exploration, Head. Department Dnipro National University, Ukraine; Faculty of of Geology and mineral exploration National TU Dnipro Chemistry, E-mail: [email protected]; tel.: 098 257 70 19. Polytechnic; Dnipro, Ukraine; Prof., Dr. Sc., Yevhrashkina Galina Petrivna, Oles E-mail: [email protected]; tel.: +38 056 24 7 33 52. Honchar Dnipro National University, Faculty of Professor, Dr. Sc., Lurie Anatolii, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv Chemistry, Ukraine; National University, Ukraine; E-mail: [email protected]; E-mail: [email protected]; tel.: 067 565 51 13 tel.: +38 067 579 89 41. Prof., Dr. Sc., Reynard Emmanuel, Prof. of physical Prof., Dr. Sc., Zelenska Lyubov Ivanivna, Oles Honchar geography at the University of Lausanne, Faculty of Dnipro National University, Head of Department of geosciences, Switzerland; geography, Dnipro, Ukraine; E-mail: [email protected]; tel.:067 56067 02 E-mail: [email protected]; Prof., Dr. Sc., Shevchyuk Viktor Vasylievych, Taras Associate Prof., Dr.Sc., Afroz Ahmad Shan, Assoc. Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine; Prof. of Structural Geology with the Faculty of Science, E-mail: [email protected]; tel.: +38 050 656 33 20. 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Journal home page: geology-dnu-dp.ua doi: 10.15421/112021 Oresta Y. Bordun, Pavlo V. Romaniv, Wolodymyr R. Monasryrskyy Journ. Geol. Geograph. Geoecology, 29 (2), 233–242. Tourism geography: functional structure and role in tourismology Oresta Y. Bordun, Pavlo V. Romaniv, Wolodymyr R. Monasryrskyy Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine, [email protected] Received: 09.12.2019 Abstract. The objective basis of tourism as a phenomenon of social life makes it a complex, Received in revised form: 21.03.2020 multi-faceted object of scientific knowledge. Geography was one of the sciences that has Accepted: 23.04.2020 studied tourism since it became a phenomenon of human existence and has initiated an innovatory scientific direction, that is tourism geography. We researched the theoretical approaches to the definition of the notion tourism geography, tourism studies and tourismology as integral notions in the scientific discourse regarding the study and research on tourism. We determined the main legal, organizational, natural, socio-economic, humanitarian and other basics of the geography of tourism which are orientated at provision of dynamic development in the sphere in general. Modern traditions and tendencies of the European school of tourism studies, novel scientific orientations in the block of adjacent disciplines were evaluated and the authors` interpretation of the functional structure of the direction “Tourism geography” are presented. We determined the integral character of the theory of tourism geography with its characteristic structural changes due to the multi-functionality of scientific directions, because tourism geography is a complex natural- ecological-socio-economic system which covers geographical, ecological, socio-cultural, economic, political, organization-legal and other aspects, processes and phenomena