Tourism After the Pandemic COVID-19: Potential Government Support Effectiveness

Today the tourism and hospitality industry study is relevant, since it is this economy sector that has suffered the most from the pandemic of the coronavirus infection COVID-19. The purpose of the study is to diagnose the consequences of crisis events in social and economic life in the world and in the Russian Federation on the state of the Samara region tourism sector, which ended up in the crisis zone, and to develop recommendations and measures of state support. The authors identified the following tasks: analysis of the tourism sector current situation in the Samara region, the tourism market participants perception by of state policy in this area, analysis of the development prospects of respondents-tour operators in the region. The basis of the article is a large-scale sociological study. The authors of the article revealed the key problems of the Samara region tourism industry. Respondents’ expectations and the real possibilities of the public sector to overcome the consequences of the coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic were studied. The measures to improve the interaction of the business environment and the public sector to accelerate the restoration of the tourism industry in the Samara region were proposed.