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July issue of the "LOGISTICS" journal, dedicated to the logistics of tourism, has been published

The issue has been prepared with the support of the Department of national policy, inter-regional relations and tourism of Moscow, headed by Vladimir Vasilyevich Chernikov. 

   At the present stage of development logistics is a crucial element in the management system of the tourism industry. The relationship of logistics and tourism consists in the necessity to plan and manage the tourist flows at all stages of tourism activities: from the formation of the tourist product and development of the tourist infrastructure to analyzing the level of customer satisfaction and finding the ways and directions to improve tourism activities. 

   Can we speak about the mechanism of import substitution in the context of tourism? How is the tourist infrastructure being developed in Moscow? What makes the city a tourist attraction? Vladimir Vasilyevich Chernikov, the head of the Department of national policy, inter-regional relations and tourism of Moscow, answered these and other questions. 

   In his interview Vladimir Vasilyevich told us, how the capital plans to delight guests in the near future, how the city develops its hotel infrastructure, if there are enough interpreters and guides, what technical means are used to inform the guests about the current events that take place in the capital. 

   Dmitry Timofeyevich Novikov, the Chairman of the Editorial Council, Doctor of Economics, Professor, appealed to the readers. In his opening speech, he noted that the creation of a competitive tourist product requires using a large resource potential of the Russian tourism, especially of the recreational sector.

   The key material of the issue is the article by Yuliya Kislova and Anna Kazunina "Analysis of the volume and structure of the tourist flows to the region (Moscow is taken as an example)". The authors analyze the methods to evaluate the volume of tourist flows used in foreign and Russian practice, based on the comparison of the transport statistics data, characterizing the volume of passenger arrivals in the territory of the Moscow region, and the statistics of tourist accommodation in hotels and other collective accommodation means. The article presents the results of the methods testing, in the article the volume of tourist traffic to Moscow in 2013‒2014 was calculated, besides, some methodological features that make it difficult to determine the volume of inbound and domestic tourist traffic in the Russian regions were considered. 

   The article, written by Anna Alexandrova, "Territorial and production system of tourism", dedicated to the transformation of the territorial and production system of tourism based on value added chains, also deals with the problem of tourism. The author analyzes the network forms of the travel industry organization and pays great attention to the value of tourist impressions. 

   In addition, you will learn about the investigation, conducted by Tatiana Skorobogatova, "On the role of logistics in the service of a socially oriented economy", the article by Boris Magin and Grach Muradyan "Geography of the aircraft correspondence: the role of the geographical location of the point of sales" and other materials.