PRIORITY TASKS OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA

Abstract

The modern market of tourism services is one of the leading and most dynamically developing sectors of the economy. In many countries, tourism plays a significant role in shaping the GDP, enhancing the foreign trade balance, creating additional jobs, and providing employment. Acting as a stabilizer of socioeconomic development, tourism is the locomotive of the development of transport, communications, construction, and agriculture, as well as the production of consumer goods and services. It has a high investment animated effect (10 rubles (9.5 US cents) of investments in the tourism sphere bring 60 rubles (95 US cents) of total revenue in other sectors of the economy).