Outbound tourism of Russia: periodization and features of its calculating (1992-2018)

Dedicated to the development of outbound tourism in the Russian Federation. The periodization of the development of outbound tourism is carried out and the main characteristics of each stage are described. The dynamics of outbound tourist flows is analyzed and the conditions and circumstances that contributed to its growth are substantiated. A separate analysis is devoted to tourism with neighboring countries. The problematic aspects of the statistical observation of outbound tourism in connection with the adoption of a new methodology for calculating outbound tourism, as well as the features of counting outbound tourist flows within the framework of official statistical information, are considered.