Tourism is one of the directions of population migration: varieties, opportunities, scales

In article one of the directions of temporary migration - tourism is considered. The concept of tourism, its feature during differenteras of development of humanity is given; incentive motives and types of tourism are analyzed; its scales in the last decade of the XXI century are considered; the analysis of geography of tourism and the perspective tourist directions to 2020 is given. In article questions of formation of the Russian tourist market and its place in the international tourism are considered, the list of the visa-free countries for Russians is provided.