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This paper, provided by the authors, focuses on the prospects for the development of wine tourism in the southern regions of the Russian Federation. Unlike a beach holiday, for obvious reasons unpopular in winter, wine tourism is a year-round phenomenon. The most important factor in the successful development of this type of business is familiarizing tourists with the latest technologies in winemaking and viticulture. These technologies are based on digitization of agriculture, the introduction of elements of precision farming, digital mapping and yield planning, parallel driving systems, Internet of Things (IoT), the use of unmanned tractors (combines) and robotics.

This paper, provided by the authors, focuses on the prospects for the development of ecotourism in the southern Russia. In recent years, ecotourism is becoming increasingly common in the modern world. According to experts, in the past decade, ecotourism has developed three times faster than the tourism industry as a whole. The southern regions of Russia, for a number of objective and subjective reasons, have all the conditions for the development of tourism. They own vast environmental resources, the use of which, along with the dynamically growing demand for tourism services, will naturally lead to intensification of the development of infrastructure and the territorial organization of ecotourism.

the article summarizes strategic directions of activity to ensure competitiveness of trading enterprises. A distinctive characteristic of presented generalized model is detailing the process of analyzing prerequisites and the process of unifying competitive advantages of retail enterprises, starting with the classification and diagnosis of a company and ending with the development of an organizational and economic mechanism to ensure competitiveness and parametric characteristics of the final control. The effectiveness of introduction of a generalized model is substantiated. The model improves competitiveness of an enterprise and forms competitive advantages in organizational aspects, taking into account the specifics of commercial sector activities.

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