Genre of the internet travelogue as an object of interest for modern philological knowledge

Statement of the problem. Travelogue is one of the popular Internet speech genres. Due to the variety of approaches to determining its boundaries, there is no unambiguous understanding of the term, travelogue becomes the object of attention of the humanities. The purpose of this articleis to consider the Internet travelogue as a genre in the context of modern philological knowledge. The research methodology is the analysis and synthesis of existing approaches to determining the travelogue genre based on research works of foreign and Russian scientists. The results of the study. In journalism, the travelogue is seen as a meta-genre and a special narrative form that differs from other topics. In literary criticism, the travelogue is a literary genre as a story about a journey. In linguistic works, the term “travelogue” is used to refer to discourse, meta-genre or literary genre. Conclusion. Based on the data obtained, we can talk about a broad understanding of travelogue in the philological sciences: from the story of the journey to the form of understanding reality. Each discipline studies a specific aspect of the travelogue, referring to different text formats. The author's contribution consists in analyzing the different areas of the existence of the travelogue and substantiating the need to distinguish the travelogue's modern speech genre in the Internet environment as an object of linguistic research, determining its genre-forming features.