Abstract: The article investigates the English neologisms coined in the sphere of tourism as a complex phenomenon and their word-formation types.Neologisms are defined as newly coined lexemes or word combinations or the existing words which acquired a new meaning that name new phenomena and are moderately used by most speakers of a given language.Despite a wide array of researches in neology, the problem of neologisms' investigation is topical due to their absolute novelty, especially when it concerns the study of a particular sphere in which neologisms are born.With regard to the fact that modern people sometimes lack time for long holidays and at the same time desire unusual and non-standard trips and accommodation while travelling, a wide range of new non-traditional ways of travelling have emerged.Therefore, the focus of our research is on the neologisms which nominate new types of non-standard holidays (astrotourism, wall crawl, daycation, nakation, heritage travel, DNA trip), family holidays (greycation, maternymoon, landmarkation), tourists (randonaut, begpacker), modern types of hotels (poshtel, bubble hotel) and the adjacent phenomena (mistake fare, flight shaming, undertourism, overtourism).The emphasis is also laid on the study of the neologisms denoting new types of holidays which have appeared as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic (air bridge, corona corridor, travel bubble).The neological coinages for this research were selected by means of sampling from electronic lexicographic sources and reputable Internet sites.The derivational characteristics of the neologisms at issue are also in the focus of our attention.The word-forming mechanisms which take part in the neologisms' formation, namely affixation, blending, and compounding are studied.Within the framework of the research blending turned out to be the most productive word-forming mechanism (47% of the neologisms from the sampling), with compounding coming second with 43% of the neologisms under investigation.Affixation was discovered to be the least productive word-forming mechanism accounting for the remaining 10% of the sampling.General conclusions are made at the end of the article and suggestions for further neological researches are offered.