recreational sphere

The objectives of this article are to determine the essence and structure of the institutional environment, as well as to study its impact on the formation and activities of recreation and tourism in Ukraine.

The article reveals the essence of the institutional environment from different points of view. The formal and informal institutions are defined and their role is highlighted. Considerable attention is paid to the analysis of normative legal acts and state electronic resources of a number of foreign countries.

This scientific paper evaluates the activity of collective means of placement as recreational sphere organizations on the basis of statistical data divided into two groups: hotels and similar means of placement and specialized means of placement. This paper focuses on the analysis of the degree of the recreational industry development of Ukraine by means of statistical analysis of the dynamics of the number of CMP by their types and the number of 4 persons placed there during 2014–2016.