Estimation of elaboration of strategic and program policy documents regulating questions of tourism development in northern regions of Russia

Abstract

The authors performed critical analysis of 26 strategic and program documents of federal and regional significance, governing the development of tourism, to allocate problems and targets of the development of tourism and risks of realization of the tourism development programs. The authors used scoring and expert evaluation methods to develop the technique, which estimates the elaboration of strategic and policy documents governing the development of tourism. The developed technique is used for evaluation of strategic and program documents of the northern regions of Russia. The guidelines for the establishment of regional tourism development programs are given

Keywords

• strategic and program management
• tourism
• socio-economic development
• the northern regions of Russia