Ethnotourism as a factor of intensive region's social and economic development and of improving the quality of life (on the example of the Republic of Mordovia)

Ethno-cultural tourism is the attractive direction of cultural tourism for many countries. The author supposes that the Republic of Mordovia have a truly unique ethnic richness and the region is able to achieve great success in the tourism sector’s development, making its competitive advantages into pulses of intense economic growth. The article describes the main indicators of tourist firms, perspective tourist trends in the region as well as ways to improve public policy in this area.