Cinema tourism as a perspective direction of development of the tourist market
In the article the history of the film tourism, its meaning and development prospects in the world and in Russia were analyzed. Having researched the special features, related to Russian films, the author managed to understand why travel agents are not interested in creating tours to famous spots of Russian films. The aim of the work is to find out the main destinations of the film tourism and reveal the reasons of the lack of such tours to the places where Russian films were shot. Priority tasks are to define the meaning of the film tourism, highlight the most common destinations of this tourism industry, compare foreign and Russian film tours.