Tourism in Russia. Problems and perspectives

Today the tourism industry is developing rapidly all over the world. The objectives and purposes of this paper are to draw public attention, both inbound and international (e.g. European one [2]), to the evolvement of tourism in Russia; to define perspective (with a high rate of return on investments) products and services of Russian tourism [3] to be marketable for domestic economy and realizable in “EU-Russia relationships” framework of governmental (economic policy) practice; to establish a balance of prudential globalization of cultures where Russian social tourism is to be in demand of world society [4], taking into account my Academic interests Social tourism in Russia undergoes a new growth in the late 2000s’ after a cardinal post-communism decline. According to World Tourism Organization (WTO) forecast, Russia tends to be at least tenth in the world-wide ranking of the most visited destinations by 2020. Problem statement. Significance of overal contribution in Russian economy, considerng GDP and other indices, made up by tourism products and services has been often underestimated [5]. Task statement.

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. The task of this paper is to implement a thorough and comprehensive analysis of the institutional, organizational and legislative cutting-edge instruments of social tourism marketing in Russia. Approach. Analytic models of economic indices overview, domestic tourism priority approach, analysis of tourism field data and innovation-creative approach to tourism services’ offer are introduced for making progress on the problem stated. Hypothesis. Social tourism in Russian has been maintaining a huge potential for the integrative economic advance, and it needs a rational precondition for the economic policy development in the overall framework of European Union and World [4]. While getting an insight into the upcoming global events, one may state that dynamics of creative informational our days’ life requires a synergetic concept application and gain as maximum return as possible from initial technology input and creative human mind investments for the high value added goods (products, services and works) production considering contemporary priority tendencies of Russian tourism sphere. Results. A great technological advantage exists for the high value added creative tourism sector differentiation and growth as we’ve revealed while accumulating actual information about Russian social tourism sector. Creative tourism based on the advance of creative economy is to be boosted. Application of results. Implementations of results in practise has been carrying out during the regular collaborative (together with Kronid Korepanov [6], Prof. of Almetyevsk State Oil Institute, Doctor of Historical Sciences, my Father and First Teacher, and his own team of researches- archaeologists) field exploration of ancient towns remains near and within the contemporal frontiers of such historical cites as Great Kazan and Ufa, cultural towns as Elabuga (my native one). Conclusion. The process of European and world-wide integration has provided a substantial economic and political precondition for the Russian tourism economics advance [5,6] as well as economy progress in a whole.

The enormous size of Russia and the remoteness of many areas from the sea result in the dominance of the humid continental climate, which is prevalent in all parts of the country except for the tundra and the extreme southeast. Mountains in the south obstruct the flow of warm air masses from the Indian Ocean, while the plain of the west and north makes the country open to Arctic and Atlantic influences. Most of Northern European Russia and Siberia has a subarctic climate, with extremely severe winters in the inner regions of Northeast Siberia (mostly the Sakha Republic, where the Northern Pole of Cold is located with the record low temperature of ?71.2 °C/?96.2 °F), and more moderate elsewhere. The strip of land along the shore of the Arctic Ocean, as well as the Russian Arctic islands, have a polar climate. The coastal part of Krasnodar Krai on the Black Sea, most notably in Sochi, possesses a humid subtropical climate with mild and wet winters. Winter is dry compared to summer in many regions of East Siberia and the Far East, while other parts of the country experience more even precipitation across seasons. Winter precipitation in most parts of the country usually falls as snow. The region along the Lower Volga and Caspian Sea coast, as well as some areas of southernmost Siberia, possesses a semi-arid climate. Throughout much of the territory there are only two distinct seasons—winter and summer; spring and autumn are usually brief periods of change between extremely low temperatures and extremely high. The coldest month is January (February on the coastline), the warmest usually is July. Great ranges of temperature are typical. In winter, temperatures get colder both from south to north and from west to east. Summers can be quite hot, even in Siberia. The continental interiors are the driest areas.

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