THE WAYS OF ENSURING COMPETITIVENESS IN TOURISM.

      Аннотация: The authors primarily focus on explaining the nature of competitiveness in the context of tourism enterprises. Two articles are devoted to the theoretical and literature analysis of tourism concepts interrelated with competitiveness. Other five articles have the aim of analyzing factors affecting the development of the tourism sphere. Main contributions of authors include the model of innovative development, integral competitiveness index for small and medium sized tourism enterprises, the analysis of factors affecting tourism in Central Asia and other countries of Commonwealth of Independent States.

Ключевые слова: Tourism, Competitiveness, Innovations, Rating, integral competitiveness index, tourism concepts, high-quality, Hospitality, Factors, econometric methods.