
Dear readers! In September the CeMAT RUSSIA exhibition was held, which showed everyone that innovations and robotics are increasingly penetrating the logistics industry. We can safely say that many technologies are tested here, and only then they go out into the world. However, it is not only CeMAT RUSSIA that demonstrates the prevalence of the digital agenda.
Dear readers! This is the ninth issue of the journal, which turned out to be very rich and diverse. Traditionally, the issue is opened by an analyst. The material by Alina Nasyrova from the Market Guide Agency, dedicated to investments in warehouse complexes in Russia, recalls the importance of developing logistics infrastructure for the integrated development of regions.
Dear readers! We present to your attention the eighth issue of the magazine and its materials.
In the literature often envisaged the issue of the functions of tourism as a form of social and economic activities. But for the positive impact on the individual and the economy, falls on deaf ears the main function of tourism, which consists in the communication of tourists with tourism resources in an extended sense. As well as in the sphere of transport service and the mass media, communication is a kind of metafunction of tourism, which integrates and mediates the implementation of its other functions. This logical conclusion is fundamentally changing ideas about the role of tourism in development of territories and society in general.
Key words. Tourism, functions of tourism, communication, motivation of travel, tourist resources, collective accommodation facilities, recreation, business tourism, cultural tourism, metafunction of tourism.