*Senior Lecturer, Service (tourism) Chair, International Tourism Faculty, Tashkent State Universityof Economics, Uzbekistan, Squire, Uzbekistan
**Teacher, Service (tourism) Chair, International Tourism Faculty, Tashkent State Universityof Economics, Uzbekistan, Squire, Uzbekistan
Online published on 30 March, 2016.
Uzbekistan as a major Central Asian Silk Road tourism destination has a great opportunity of deployment in the sector of hospitality and tourism. On this basis, country´s potential touristic resources, like greenhouses, reservoirs and relevant ones could be one of the vital sources in the way of sustainable development that has faced exponential growth globally. This article presents the author's attempt to form the theoretical basis of domestic tourism, as its is vital both in theoretical and practical ways. Analysis of the current state of the conceptual apparatus of the tourism industry, based on which the conclusions and proposals formulated by the creation of categorical apparatus of tourism. Moreover, tourism competitiveness of destinations will investigate speculatively through the case of Uzbekistan. The results serve to point out key trends and gaps in which to focus future research on this topic and they might be useful in formulating public policies and strategies for tourism industry development. Paper concludes major drawbacks of tourism competitiveness with the further analyses of sub-sectors.
Tourism competitiveness, tourism resources, tourism industry, domestic tourism, tourism destination competitiveness, tourism infrastructure, tourism policy