THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF TOURIST FLOWS: TRENDS AND DETERMINING FACTORS
The article analyzes the structure and dynamics of tourist flows using the offi- cial website of Federal agency for tourism of the Russian Federation. For the last three years domestic tourism has experienced the structural shifts towards internal and entrance tourism. The tourist market extreme operation caused by the number of events and factors has significantly reduced imports in tourism The new reality has led to restructuring of domestic tourism. The authors re- search the inbound tourist flows, and define the leading countries by the num- ber of arrivals in the Russian Federation. The article define key factors promot- ing growth international tourist attraction of Russia. The diversification of the international tourism product, transport availability and issues of visa mainte- nance, observance of the international standards and improvement of tourist service quality are among them. It is noted that creating competitive ad- vantages of the tourist territory and its consumer value are not defined by just qualitative infrastructure. It become the part of economy of impressions. Ob- taining adequate statistical information, including volumes of an inbound and outbound tourist flows, is still an important issue. It affects the effective man- aging the tourism industry and, finally, its competitiveness in the domestic and international markets.