Sea cruises in Russia: current state and development problems

Cruise tourism in the world is one of the most promising areas of tourism development. The highest development of cruise tourism was in North America and Western Europe. Cruise tourism is divided into sea and river. The main regions of sea cruise tourism are the waning Caribbean, the Mediterranean region, and Southeast Asia. In addition, there are transoceanic cruises and cruises around the continents. It should also be noted the development of cruise tourism in new areas, such as South America, Australia and New Zealand, in the Persian Gulf, Eastern and Southern Africa. Interesting are the Transatlantic and Trans-Pacific cruises. Exclusive are considered and round-the-world cruises lasting more than three months. River and lake cruises in these countries are significantly inferior both in the number of cruises and in the number of tourists. The most developed such cruises in European countries, North America (most of all in the United States), Brazil and China. Many publications of Russian and foreign authors, such as Basyukov G. T., Bezrukova N. L., Malygin V. K., Yakovenko I. M., Lazitska N. F., Levchenko K. K., Efremova E. S., Neidozminov S. G., Yu. F. Lukin are devoted to the study and analysis of the features and problems of the development of cruise tourism. etc. Russia is an exception in this direction of tourism, in our country river cruise tourism traditionally occupies a leading position. This is primarily the European part of the country and the large rivers of Siberia. In this article we will talk about the problems of development of cruise tourism in Russia.