Employment in the tourism industry

In the article the significance of the employment problem is designated viewing from the social and economic sides. A tourist complex is considered that contains a wide variety of sectors of the economy and creating employment opportunities not only in tourism, but also in the service sectors, at enterprises and objects of tourist infrastructure. The author designates the tourist sector as a platform for creating new jobs. The article describes the features of employment in tourism, reflects the essence of direct and indirect employment in the tourism industry. The data on direct employent in tourism in some countries are submitted as well as the ones with a multiplicative effect. The direct employment in tourism for 20082012 in the Russian Federation is analyzed. It is proved that the development of tourism, unlike most of the production industries, involves reservation and expansion of needs in labor force, even with the possibility of increasing productivity.