Tourist infrastructure in a region (collective accommodation facilities): the state, tendencies and problems

Introduction: in modern conditions of development of the tourist industry and the expected influx of tourists to the Republic of Mordovia during the period of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Saransk, as well as the need to use the heritage of the Cup in the future, the issue of upgrading the collective accommodation facilities is a crucial one. Currently, the problem lies in the lack of the number of hotel beds necessary according to the FIFA requirements, and, in the future, in the prospects of using the accommodation capacities being put into operation today. Materials and Methods: the materials used for writing this paper were the regulations of the Russian Federation and the data from the territorial body of the Federal State Statistics Service in the Republic of Mordovia. The article employed the methods of mathematical statistics; the development of collective accommodation facilities in the Republic of Mordovia from 2005 to 2015 was analyzed using the methods of comparison and generalization; tendencies and problems of development of accommodation facilities in the region were exposed. Results: the analysis of the level of development of such an element of the tourist infrastructure as accommodation facilities in the territory of the Republic of Mordovia in general and in its capital, the city of Saransk, in particular, was given. Trends in the development of collective accommodation facilities in the region were identified and systematized; the main problems in this industry were exposed, certain ways of addressing them were proposed. Discussion and Conclusions: for the present, the level of development of the tourist infrastructure in the region lags behind the main demands of national and international standards. The results of the conducted research allowed to make several proposals for improving the effectiveness of the use of the Republican collective accommodation facilities and making them meet the international standards.