GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF THE TOURIST PART OF THE INVESTMENT POTENTIAL AND FEATURES OF ATTRACTION OF THE INVESTMENTS IN RUSSIAN REGIONS
The article is devoted to analysis of the position of the Russian regions in investment climate ranking and the characteristic of features of invest attraction. Data of the rating agency "Expert RA" and the Federal State Statistics Service are used in the article. The results of analysis indicate the increase of the tourist part of the investment potential. There is the characteristic of the features of the regional investment. Uneven distribution of investment in fixed assets in the territory of the country is detected in the paper. It is shown that the largest share of the investment potential of Russia refers to a small part of the regions of the European part of the country and these regions have the lowest risk for investors, particularly Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is noted that there are not only raw materials regions among regions-leaders of investment in fixed assets, but also regions with large cities. Each of these cities has more than million population and these cities are attractive for investors, including foreign investors.