Peculiarities of Sustainable Tourism Development in the Russian Federation
Peculiarities of Sustainable Tourism Development in the Russian Federation

Summary/Abstract: The high potential of tourist and recreational resources is not yet a guarantee of tourism successful development, whereas it requires searching and implementing of the new and effective modern forms of entrepreneurial potential fulfillment in the tourist area. To form a competitive tourism market, it is necessary to ensure a number of tourism industry components which would enhance the quality of tourist services provision and satisfy all the needs of tourist services consumers. The purpose of the article is the studying of the tourism industry functioning in the Russian Federation. To achieve this purpose, it is necessary to consider a number of objectives: 1. to determine the mechanism of the tourism market functioning; 2. to perform the analysis of the tourism market development by the regions of the Russian Federation; 3. to identify the prerequisites of the current tourism industry state in Russia; 4. to propose the recommendations for tourism industry regulation. Dialectical method of scientific cognition was applied during studying the role and influence of tourism on the economy development, the calculation and analytical methods of observation, measurement, analysis and comparison of indices characterizing the tourism industry in the Russian Federation. The regulation of the tourist regional market with the help of special economic zones allows creating conditions for attracting investments to the economy of the region, raising of living standards, reducing unemployment, etc. The current tourism industry state of the Russian Federation was studied. The dynamic pattern of socio-economic indicators of the tourism industry is reflected. The mechanism of the tourism market functioning is presented here.To form a modern efficient competitive market of the tourism industry it is necessary to adhere to the following mechanisms of state regulation: in the development of legal, financial and economic constraints that determine the parameters for the tourism industry development; in the development of investment policies directed by the state for the priority development of the tourism infrastructure, especially in tourist areas, where the financing from their own sources is not possible; in the regulation of personnel training and retraining for the tourism industry; in measures and methods of small and medium-sized businesses support in the tourism sphere; in information assurance and advertising activity of tourist enterprises; in promotion of the national tourist product to the international tourism market; in promotion of the new national tourism products development; in standardization and certification of the tourism industry services with the use of blockchain technologies.

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