The article presents and summarizes the results of mapping transformational processes in the demographic and ethno-confessional space of the Crimea. Map plots reflect the options for visualizing data on demographic, ethnic and religious processes in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol over the past decades. The maps illustrate the dynamics of the population size and density, its natural movement, the balance of migration, marriage and divorce, territorial features of the settlement of large and small ethnic groups of the Crimea, the placement of religious buildings and religious communities on its territory. Maps of rural settlement and the appearance of villages with endangered populations were created and analyzed. The types of dynamics of demographic, ethnic and confessional situations in the Crimea are determined. The analysis of the peculiarities of the dynamics of the ethnodemographic space of the Crimea during the change of its political subjectivity is carried out. The main spatial patterns of the processes that form the modern portrait of the population of the Crimean Peninsula are revealed. The conclusion is made about the possibility of cartographic study of the demographic and ethno-confessional specifics of the territory after preliminary differentiation of socio-cultural processes within its boundaries into large-scale and local ones. This allows us to clarify not only the spatial, but also the essential markers of their occurrence. In modern Crimea, large-scale transformational socio-cultural processes should include all the reproductive and migration changes that are the result of demographic breakdowns that began in the 1990s. The processes of changing its ethnic and confessional spaces should be considered local in Crimea. Their mapping revealed the narrowing nature of such a phenomenon as the polyethnicity of the territory of the Crimean Peninsula. Cartographic study of socio-cultural processes in the Crimea confirmed the author’s hypothesis that the Crimean regional community has not completed the process of post-Soviet transformation and continues to support the development trends established at the end of the twentieth century.

The high potential of tourist and recreational resources is not yet a guarantee of tourism successful development, whereas it requires searching and implementing of the new and effective modern forms of entrepreneurial potential fulfillment in the tourist area. To form a competitive tourism market, it is necessary to ensure a number of tourism industry components which would enhance the quality of tourist services provision and satisfy all the needs of tourist services consumers. The purpose of the article is the studying of the tourism industry functioning in the Russian Federation. To achieve this purpose, it is necessary to consider a number of objectives: to determine the mechanism of the tourism market functioning; to perform the analysis of the tourism market development by the regions of the Russian Federation; to identify the prerequisites of the current tourism industry state in Russia; to propose the recommendations for tourism industry regulation. Dialectical method of scientific cognition was applied during studying the role and influence of tourism on the economy development, the calculation and analytical methods of observation, measurement, analysis and comparison of indices characterizing the tourism industry in the Russian Federation. The regulation of the tourist regional market with the help of special economic zones allows creating conditions for attracting investments to the economy of the region, raising of living standards, reducing unemployment, etc. The current tourism industry state of the Russian Federation was studied. The dynamic pattern of socio-economic indicators of the tourism industry is reflected. The mechanism of the tourism market functioning is presented here. To form a modern efficient competitive market of the tourism industry it is necessary to adhere to the following mechanisms of state regulation: in the development of legal, financial and economic constraints that determine the parameters for the tourism industry development; in the development of investment policies directed by the state for the priority development of the tourism infrastructure, especially in tourist areas, where the financing from their own sources is not possible; in the regulation of personnel training and retraining for the tourism industry; in measures and methods of small and medium-sized businesses support in the tourism sphere; in information assurance and advertising activity of tourist enterprises; in promotion of the national tourist product to the international tourism market; in promotion of the new national tourism products development; in standardization and certification of the tourism industry services with the use of blockchain technologies.

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