NEW UZBEKISTAN AND TRAVEL JOURNALISM

Abstract

The article analyzes various aspects of travel and tourism journalism, an almost unexplored sphere of journalism in Uzbekistan. Research methodology: travel journalism in Uzbekistan has undergone radical changes, a legal and regulatory framework has been created, and favourable conditions for the development of the sphere by the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Heritage are being created. At the same time, the genre has been little studied in research papers as an important means of forming an understanding-based knowledge of travel journalism.

The article considers the current problems of travel journalism in the context of current problems of globalization and raises the questions of determining the place of this direction in the media system and the search for its history. It shows the fallacy of the attitude to travel journalism as a "meaningless" direction.

Relevant issues of special and high-quality training of travel journalists, the theory and practice of travel journalism. Special training for future travel journalists in foreign countries is currently offered mainly in the form of online classes that do not provide a serious level of training. It has been analyzed that such processes are not observed in Uzbekistan. Proposals for the inclusion of the subject "Travel Journalism" in the program of the faculties of journalism in higher educational institutions of the country are made.