Article “On the question of the formation of the hotel industry of the Crimea in the nineteenth - early twentieth centuries” by Irina Pavlenko, lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Services and Tourism, became one of the most cited by the standards of the scientometric publication Scopus.
The work was written in collaboration with a lecturer of the Crimean Federal University named after Vernadsky Elena Polishchuk. The article provides a retrospective analysis of the main processes of the emergence of the hotel industry in the Crimea, assesses the level of public service and gives its comparative characteristics on the example of the cities of the peninsula. Based on the study of historical documents, memoirs and memoirs of scientists and travelers who visited Crimea in the 19th - early 20th centuries, the first hotels of the peninsula are presented and described, the main services they provide, the average cost of rooms are given, and their advantages and disadvantages are described in the process of formation. and development of the hotel industry in the region under study. Through the study, it was established that the beginning of the resort development of the peninsula can be considered the end of the 18th century, when the Crimea entered the phase of active development of land plots with estates, palace ensembles and landscape gardening complexes.
