The article deals with the following issues: globalization and integration of the economic, political and information space, which have led to changes in the tourism industry; medical tourism as a promising area of modern health care, which requires theoretical understanding; implementation of the federal project "Development of the export of medical services", part of the national project "Healthcare"; medical tourism as an object of research activities: goals, objectives, results of ongoing research; publication activity of medical tourism researchers; the role of ongoing scientific and practical conferences in promoting scientific knowledge about medical tourism; problems of professional competence of specialists in the field of medical tourism; scientific contribution to the optimization of modern administration of the medical services market.