INFORMATION PROVISION OF TOURISM AND ECONOMY IN AZERBAIJAN AND ITS BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS
Authors:   Baku State University, Department Management of Library-Information Resources, Baku, Azerbaijan, KHALAFOVA Sevda , ISMAYILOV Nadir ,   Baku State University, Department of Document Management, Baku, Azerbaijan
Published: December 2024

Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. Tourism can be
domestic (within the traveller's own country) or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing
implications on a country's balance of payments. The economy of Azerbaijan has gone through different stages of rapid
growth, stability, and crisis. In general, the economy of Azerbaijan, besides field-wise classification, can be divided into three
categories: 1. recession period, covering 1992–1995, right after Azerbaijan restored its independence after the USSR
collapsed, 2. recovery, from 1996 to 1997, mainly because of increased oil sales, potential oil contracts, partners, and
pipelines, 3. boom, from 1998 till 2008, and finally, an economic fall, starting from 2009. After Azerbaijan became
independent following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country started to pursue its sovereign economic policy. For a
newly independent country with an economy mainly based on the oil and gas industry, it was quite demanding to keep its say
in the world of economy giants. The key objectives of the new and independent economic policy were the establishment of
the economic system built on the principles of several types of property, including private property, unlike the Soviet times,
integration into the global economy and transition to the market economy. The study of document flow is the most important
condition for evaluating the current situation, trends and development prospects in a certain field. The scientific information
obtained with the help of the conducted research is successfully applied in various evaluation processes, which in turn allows
to accurately determine the development of a certain scientific direction. Among the types of activities carried out in the
direction of building an information society in the Republic of Azerbaijan, the organization and management of library -
bibliography and information work, the use of modern technologies along with traditional work methods in providing
information to readers has become a priority direction of our state's policy in the field of library work. The main goal of t he
article is to conduct a comprehensive study of the document flow in the field of tourism and economy and to sup port the
information provision of specialists working in this field in the future. One of the priority directions for modern librarian ship
and bibliography is the study of information resources in the field of tourism and economy, the determination of the location
of these information resources, the study of the current state of the flow of documents in this field, the bibliometric analy sis
of fundamental scientific works created in the field of tourism and economy, library- based on the analysis of the current state
of information systems, it consists in determining the directions for improving the information provision of different groups
of the population. Research methods: special library science, historical, structural-functional analysis, systematic approach,
generalization, sociological, statistical analysis and comparative analysis methods were used in the research process. The
main conclusion of the article is to achieve the development of information demand and document flow in the field of tourism
and economy as a result of the elimination of existing problems in this field. Mentioning certain proposals referring to the
works of local and foreign authors is one of the points that attract the main attention in the article.