Spatial organization of accommodations establishments in Rostov region

The formation of a highly developed hotel infrastructure adequate to modern world standards is one of the most important priorities for the economy development in Rostov region. The study is aimed at analyzing and summarizing information on the current state of accommodation establishments development on the territory of Rostov region. The importance of studying the hotel infrastructure in Rostov region has been substantiated. The research is based on the official statistical data of the Federal State Statistics Service and the methods of cartographic and geoinformation modeling. As a result, the weak points and poles of growth of the hotel infrastructure in the territorial context were identified. The research made it possible to identify the main trends and development patterns of collective accommodation establishments in Rostov region: uneven spatial development of accommodation facilities, characterized by a high concentration of the number of beds per capita in the southwestern districts of the region; the impact of the business travel segment and the holding of the FIFA World Cup on the growth in the number of accommodation establishments in Rostov-on-Don; the decisive role of natural conditions and resources as a factor in the development of a network of accommodation establishments on the territory of the region; an increase in the number of accommodation establishments in the areas of transit tourism.