Short description of important scientific result: The research activity is devoted to the problems of improving state regulation and management methods in the field of recreation and tourism, the resource potential of the field of recreation and tourism and the effectiveness of its use, the territorial organization of tourist and recreational systems and the development of various types of recreational and tourist activities on regional, national and world markets; factors of development of domestic, inbound and outbound tourism, problems of planning and promotion of tourist territories and individual (ecological, rural, Arctic, diving, industrial, gastronomic, event) types of tourism and the development of tourist services in the Arctic regions of Russia.