A Study On The Structure Of Tourism Industry

Being the biggest country in the world, Russia has huge nature recourses, long history and culture, strong religious atmosphere formed by the Orthodox Church and original customs inhabited from the last few ages. All these peculiarities make Russia tourist industry interesting for the entrepreneurs. Meanwhile, the tourist industry has a significant role in stimulating other industries (construction, trade, agriculture, services, communications etc.)."Structure-Conduct-Performance" paradigm (aka SCP paradigm), is the classic paradigm of the theory of industrial organization and normative analysis framework, which uses the three-stage ("structure-conduct-performance") structure to observed and analyze the industry. Russian tourist industry is growing fast in recent years. Despite of successful development there are still many problems exist. SCP paradigm helps to make deep research of the essence of the industry. During the work under this paper we try to analyze the industry from entrepreneur point of view. There are few researches of tourist industry based on SCP in Russia, hope this paper can make a contribution to this field of knowledge. This paper was written according SPC scheme. The result of the research is that Moscow tourist industry is on the moderately concentrated market. Entry barriers are quite low, but for the exit there are sunk and severance costs, institutional and policy constraints and regulations that are relatively high. Moscow tourist market will rapidly develop in future, and structural efficiency and level of technological progress will also continue to improve. In conclusion of this paper can be noticed, that Moscow tourist market is very attractive for entrepreneurs.