PhD in Geography, Associate Professor, Department of Tourism,Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.  

Andrij Melnyk, born in 1976, received a Candidate of Geographical Sciences degree from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 2006. Member of the Ukrainian Geographical Society, Member of the Ukrainian Geodetic Society, Member of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional organization of the Union for the Promotion of Rural Green Tourism in Ukraine. Author of more than 90 scientific publications, including 31 published in professional journals and publications that are included in international scientometric databases, 1 article in a publication included in the scientometric database Scopus, 3 monographs.