CONCEPTUALLY CATEGORIAL EVOLUTION OF THE TERM “TOURISM RESOURCE POTENTIAL”
The article provides an overview of the existing definitions of the concept “tourism resource potential” in the diachronic aspect of foreign and domestic research. The purpose of the study is to try to clarify the semantic field of the tourism economy in terms of the concept “tourism resource potential”. The introduced definitions of the concept “resource 99potential of tourism” in retrospect of domestic and foreign researchers are critically reinterpreted. An attempt is being made to build an interdisciplinary evolution of the conceptual and categorical system of “resource potential of tourism”. At the same time, a significant lacuna was found in the terminological apparatus, which is due to the absence of the definitional unification of the notion “tourism resource potential”, occasional use of this term and the presence of a wide synonymous series.