Overview of the Current State and Problems of Accommodation Facilities Development in the Regions of the Central Federal District of the Russian Federation

The article presents the results of a study of the current state and problems of accommodation facilities development, i.e. objects of the tourist industry, including a building and its structures and parts, in which one or more equipped living rooms (premises) intended for accommodation and temporary residence of tourists are located on the example of a number of regions of the Central Federal District of the Russian Federation. For comparison, the following regions are selected: Ivanovo, Vladimir, Kostroma and Yaroslavl regions of the Central Federal District of Russia. The choice of research objects is determined by the following main factors: 1) location (close location to the capital of the Russian Federation Moscow), 2) belonging to the famous tourist route "Golden Ring of Russia"; 3) the presence of similar historical, natural and cultural conditions for the development of tourism and the hospitality industry in this region. The purpose of the study was to analyze and summarize information about the regional markets of hotel services. The relevance of the study of accommodation facilities in the processes of tourism development in the conditions of its recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic is substantiated. The study was carried out on the basis of generalization of official statistical data of the Federal Agency for Tourism, as well as data from various databases of industry enterprises. It is shown that the process of classification of accommodation facilities is necessary for these regions. The following problems of the modern hotel services market in the territories of the analyzed regions are identified: 1) the general passivity of the managers of accommodation facilities in relation to the classification procedure and obtaining a category poses a threat of reducing their number already in 2022 or their transition to the shadow sector of the economy; 2) a small number of accommodation facilities that have received the category of 4 and 5 stars; 3) the indicator of saturation of the market with collective accommodation facilities of the regions is lower than the all-Russian one, which indicates an insufficient number of hotels and other accommodation facilities in the regions of the Golden Ring.