Issues related to the measures aimed to improve the competitiveness of tourist destinations have currently become most urgent. The number of competing tourist destinations in Russia and worldwide is on the rise, leading to tough competition among market participants that feel necessary to improve the efficiency of management in the tourism industry. Tourism development in the regions can be considered as a factor of regional socio-economic development. The research contains recommendations on the management of tourist resources, and measures aimed to enhance the region’s tourist attractiveness by the example of the resort city of Sochi.

Currently, the higher education system in Russia is in the midst of rapid changes associated with the fundamental problems of organizing the educational process during a pandemic. The pandemic of the new coronavirus infection COVID-19 in 2020 affected the educational system around the world, causing the massive closure of higher education institutions. Among the management practices of Russian universities related to the provision of security for students and staff, key decisions and recommendations based on a large-scale transition to the use of e-learning, distance learning technologies and the transition to a distance learning format, which has changed the usual way of life of university students and teachers. The objective of this research is to evaluate the transition of the educational process to distance education in the context of the pandemic, to identify the factors that hinder the development of learning. The research method is a questionnaire survey on distance learning using distance technologies in higher education. The results indicate that the development of a new model of education in universities can find resistance to external challenges and to a more productive way for economic and social development.

In the modern conditions of market economy, employment sphere occupies a central position in economic and social state policy, promotes the formation of youth living standards and social landmarks. According to the statistic data, in September, 2017, the youth unemployment (under 25 years) reached 21.5% of the total number of unemployed. Not every can find a job after graduation, because employers reluctantly employ people with no practical skills. Regarding lower competitiveness, greater geographical and professional mobility, larger share of informal employment, we can argue that problems of the youth employment differ from those of other groups. Massive unemployment among youth is a great problem for country due to young people' developmental characteristics, unstable mind, excessive ambitions of fresh specialists, juvenile maximalism and responsiveness. Young specialists are pride and hope of every developed state and, if that "hope" does not have appropriate social security, then "unattached" youth becomes one of the most significant threats to economic safety and social stability of country.Employment policy must be directed not only to the formation of a single network of data base on existing vacancies, but also to the increase of young people' awareness of employment problems, and the formation of the system of professional training and retraining of unemployed population. It is necessary to focus on the need for jobs, make centers for psychological counseling which would contribute to improving competitiveness and professional mobility.

For the effective functioning of a large city, a metropolis, it is extremely important to have in the infrastructure areas and facilities for recreation of citizens, for cultural and entertainment leisure. In this article, it is offered to consider the unique project, which was accomplished in Moscow, the capital of the Russian Federation, in the very city center – the creation of multipurpose Zaryadye Park. The article presents the technology of creating a modern park infrastructure, as well as a comparative analysis of foreign and domestic practices in the development of new recreation opportunities. In addition, the article proposes to intensify the use of the socio-engineering methodology of management decision-making that provides a scientific basis for the project activity. Much attention is paid to the tasks which arise with regard to modern park areas. This includes a broad range of scientific and educational programs that contribute to sparking an interest in different age groups to knowledge and innovation, as well as the uncovering historical and natural resources of Russia, creating an oasis for recreation and walks. Moscow State Autonomous Cultural Institution Zaryadye Park is the first park built within the boundaries of the Boulevard Ring. It is a new cultural driver of Moscow, a key link in the network of walking routes around the Kremlin. Unlike other Moscow parks, which have vast territories for the organization of recreational activities, Zaryadye Park has a number of features, which make it unique, namely, a rather small area, multilevelness, botanical collection that demonstrates the natural diversity of Russia, media complexes, which have no analogues in Moscow, and a broad range of offered scientific and educational programs. Various information kiosks are available in the Zaryadye Park for visitors, as well as tourist information centers, exhibition halls, souvenir and gift shops, cafés and bars, the ice cave, the florarium, Sacred Embassy scientific-educational center; large amphitheater, concert hall, and modern gastronomic food court.

The article is devoted to the use of simulation case assignments in the learning process of students pursuing a Master's degree in "State and Municipal Management" at Russian State Social University. This university was established in 1991 for the high-quality training of specialists in the social sphere. The specialty "State and Municipal Management" enables students to explore the theoretical and practical levels, the essence and features of management interactions in the system of state and municipal administration, the main objectives, tasks and mechanisms of governance at the state and municipal levels, the methods and means of attracting investments in the economy of the municipality and the region, the features of the management system of the asset portfolio. The discipline "Sociology of Management" is the base for the direction of training "State and Municipal Management". The knowledge and skills acquired during the study contribute to a better understanding of the social, political, and economic patterns of management processes. Management sociology is a science which summarizes all management sciences in terms of targeting and special study of the patterns of managerial relations at all levels of society and its elements' functioning, as well as in all subject areas, the spheres of activity in society. The study of sociology as a science about relationships in the process of governance, connections, and interactions of the subjects of management activity in Russia has started relatively recently. In the mid-1990s, scientific readings and conferences were focused on the definition of the substantive field of science, its structure. Over these years, the situation has been as follows. The sociologists who violently debated and developed this scientific direction, after the appearance of the specialty "Management in Social Sphere" in 1996, in 1999 -the specialty "State and Municipal Management", and in 2002 -the specialty "Personnel Management", handed the study of this discipline to managers. And all of these management specialties found themselves in the consolidated group of professions "Economics and Management". This greatly affected the gap in the subject field of management itself. Most economists imagined that management is economics. The lawyers of those universities where departments of "Public Administration and Legal Support" were established never doubted that management is a legal sphere of activity. None of them paid special attention to the sociological component. However, those universities, which in the course of training in the field of state and municipal government created departments of sociology management in their structure or modules in the curricula, provide the most high-quality preparation of future managers.