THE EXHIBITIONS AS EVENT-TOURISM AND THEIR ROLE IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY
The article is devoted to actual theme – the study of event-tourism and exhibitions. The role of exhibitions as kind of event-tourism in the development of modern city is investigated. Event-tourism becomes more and more popular kind of tourism. Event-tourism has several kinds: sport-event (Olympic Games, Universiade, World Championships, etc.); festivals and carnivals; business forum and conference. Exhibitions play very important role in the event-tourism. There are many classifications of exhibition – purpose, territorial level, frequency, etc. The exhibitions, especially international ones, have a long history. And now they affect on the socio-economic development of city. There are a lot of tourists in that cities which have interesting international exhibitions. International exhibition helps the city to have international tourism brand. The exhibitions attract tourists and investors. The city gets new job, exhibition venues, new look, new infrastructure and knowledge, as a result the city has social-economic development.