About the Journal

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Journal Service and Tourism: Current Challenges (in Russ.: Современные проблемы сервиса и туризма, in translit.: Sovremennye problemy servisa i turizma) - is one of the most authoritative and popular scientific and practical periodicals in Russia, dedicated to the issues of service and tourism. The journal is described as an international journal of research and practice on trends, strategies, procedures, best practices in service and tourism of Russia and worldwide. The objective of the scientific publication is to establish methodological approaches of the strategic management in tourism, study of tourism and hospitality geography in Russia and worldwide, generalize the best practices in functioning and standards of service development in tourism and hospitality, study tourism impact on preservation of the cultural and historical heritage sites. The journal covers the issues of geography of tourist resources in the regions, tourist and recreational complexes, clusters, the hospitality industry, aspects of the development of attractions, objects of historical and cultural heritage, the geography of tourism and hospitality. In modern conditions of transformation of both the Russian and the world market of tourist services, the journal covers the most pressing problems and discusses debatable issues of further development of human life and society. It contains subject based sections, reviews, opinions of tourist service experts. An important peculiarity of the publication is its orientation not only to the scientific audience, but to the experts in service and tourism - we are happy to provide all interested authors with an opportunity to be published in the journal. The journal issues are formed on the thematic principle. Materials of each issue are subject to editorial classification.

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The journal was founded in 2007 at the initiative of the Founder - Russian State University of Tourism and Service. Long-lasting leading positions in the education field on Service and Tourism of the University determined a thematic specific of the journal, its problematic area, audience of the readers and subscribers. For the last years it became famous, popular, and important for the readers.

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The journal is a non-network periodical peer-reviewed international scientific publication published in the printed and electronic forms. The journal is issued 4 times a year.

Average number of the article in the issue - 13, average number of the pages - 150, format 166_^х260. Print run - 500 copies. The journal is distributed by subscription.

The journal is included in the List of the leading scientific journals and publications of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation where principal scientific results of the thesis researches can be published. The journal is registered in the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) - Mass Media Certification of Registration PIFS77-31758 dated April 28, 2008.

The journal is registered with ISSN International Centre: p-ISSN 1995-0411, e-ISSN 2414-9063.

The journal was assigned with DOI - Digital Object Identifier: to 01.11.2016 - doi: 10.12737/issn.1995-0411, to 31.12.2017 - doi: 10.22412/1995-0411, to 01.01.2018 - doi: 10.24411/1995-0411, to 01.11.2022 - doi: 10.24412/1995-0411, from 01.11.2022 publications in the journal are assigned DOI numbers from the ZENODO platform  - doi: 10.5281/zenodo.