Domestic pre-revolutionary periodicals of hospitality industry

The rapidly growing and highly profitable hospitality industry represents a crucial segment of the diverse services market. The media market covering the hospitality industry includes print publications, online resources, and television channels. However, the history of this journalistic direction, along with its genre and thematic specifics, remains virtually unstudied, which determines the relevance of this research. The object of study is domestic pre-revolutionary restaurant magazines. The subject is the thematic and genre specifics of hospitality industry magazines (using pre-revolutionary magazines of the restaurant trade and tavern business as examples). The research goal is to identify the content and genre uniqueness of pre-revolutionary hospitality industry magazines (using restaurant magazines as examples). Research objectives include: determining the place of hospitality industry magazines within leisure journalism; studying the history of restaurant trade and tavern business development in Russia; delineating typological characteristics of hospitality industry magazines; and, through analysis of empirical material, identifying the content, genre, and functional uniqueness of hospitality industry magazines. The empirical material consists of issues of the magazines “Restaurateur”, “Restaurant Business”, “Restaurant Life”. The chronological scope of the study covers 1910–1916. Research methods employed include description and observation, historical method, and content analysis.