STATE REGULATION OF THE TOURISM INDUSTRY AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL
А common mechanism of state regulation of tourism industry in correlation with specificity and peculiarity of the region should be developed and the decision of this issue in current realities is on the front burner. The main objective of state regulation in the field of tourism is creation of unified methodological basis of licensing, certification, classification and control federal system on management of tourism enterprises at the regional level. The mechanism for tourism management is necessary to develop to solve the problems, it is also important to have clear division of responsibilities for regulation of tourism and duties in the hierarchy of power at the federal, regional and municipal levels. The article suggests the author’s vision of tourism regulation mechanism, and identifies the role of associations of public-private partnership in the tourism management at the regional and municipal levels.