Strategic management as a tool for improving the tourist enterprise management system

Abstract

The sphere of tourism can be safely attributed to the category of unique in efficiency industrial complexes that can help solve economic anti-crisis problems. Tourist activity has a significant impact on economic growth, which is manifested in the improvement of entrepreneurship, the scale of production of products and services, the growth of effective demand. The article considers the concept of strategic management in the tourism industry. In the course of research the stages of a cycle of strategic management of the tourist company are defined on the basis. The constituent elements of strategic planning as a basis of strategic management are considered. Peculiarities of strategic management at tourist enterprises are determined. The article identifies current problems of management of tourist enterprises in Ukraine. It is noted that the success of the tourist enterprises of Ukraine depends on an effective system of management and coordination of all components of tourist attractiveness: tourist resources, infrastructure, investment and quality service. It is offered to consider the management system of the tourist enterprise in dynamics which interacts with such important elements, as: tourist resources, services, production, external environment and the factors influencing development of tourist sphere, the purposes of development of system of management of tourism. The key characteristics of the process of realization of the tourist enterprise management system are given. In today’s global economic change and the crisis in the tourism industry, tourism companies should apply strategic management, which includes a program of action to identify specific goals and means of implementing the chosen path of development. The strategic management of tourism enterprises should be based on strategic planning, which will provide an opportunity to predict the future development of production of goods and services, promising projects, personnel and financial activities on a planned basis. Key words: strategic management, management system, planning, strategy, tourism company.