opening  ample  opportunities  both  for  business 
representatives  and  consumers                                 
(Morant-Martínez, 2019).  
 
In  recent  years,  tourists  got  used  to  services 
providing  booking  processes  of  travel  tickets 
(AviaSales, Avia.tutu, etc.) and accommodation 
(Booking.com,  AirBnB,  Ostrovok.ru,  etc.), 
search  for  excursion  offers  (Tripster.ru, 
Sputnik8, WeAtlas.com, etc.) and so on. At the 
same time, we now hear the proposals to create a 
national tourist and hotel ecosystem in Russia. In 
particular,  in  2020  М.А.  Morozov  and  N.S. 
Morozova  gave  voice  for  digitizing  state 
services, i.e. to create a unified digital ecosystem 
of  the  state  “instead  of  isolated  separate 
information  systems  of  federal  departments, 
regional  authorities  and  state  services”  and 
combine  it  with  the  national  ecosystem  of 
tourism  and  hospitality  with  different  business 
proposals  under  terms  of  public-private 
partnership (Morozov & Morozova, 2020). The 
idea  is  clear  as  not  only  the  services  of 
transportation,  accommodation,  meals, 
entertainment, etc. are in demand in tourist and 
hotel  sphere  but  also state services.  Moreover, 
even then the Chairperson of the Committee on 
Social  Policy  of  the  Federation  Council                                         
I.Yu. Svyatenko declared, “The government sees 
the need in unified digital tourist contour” (it was 
said about Russpass project). At the same time, 
Rostourism promoted the tourist website Russia. 
Travel (Korolev, 2020).  
 
The situation became complicated in 2022 when 
a number of habitual foreign services left Russia 
(Booking.com, AirBnB, etc.). In business mass 
media we came across the opinion that 1) there is 
no  point  in  letting  them  back  to  our  market 
(“nobody will entrust again the data of Russian 
citizens  to  unreliable  partners”),  2)  there  is  no 
need to try duplicating the services, which left 
but  it  is  better  to  create  something  that  was 
created  in no  state of  the  world  – own  digital 
tourist  ecosystem  (this  is  “a  difficult  but  quite 
realistic task”) (Golovina, 2022). 
 
The  endeavors  in  system  tourist  industry  are 
realized. The service Russpass is being adapted 
to  new  conditions.  In  summer  2022  Russpass 
launched  the  project  “We  are  opening  Russia 
together”  with  SberStrakhovanie  – Sber’s 
daughter company (Vedomosti, 2022). From the 
information  website,  Russia.travel  has  been 
converted  into  the  interactive  digital  platform 
(Interfax-Tourism,  2022). Other  participants  of 
the service market are getting more active. For 
instance,  a  part  of  online  platform  Ozon,  the 
service Ozon Travel, which has been rendering 
the services of booking travel tickets for several 
years,  has  later  started  rendering  insurance 
services,  and  in  April  2022  declared  about 
launching the hotel booking service “in the short 
term”  (Chupanova,  2022).  The  services  of 
booking  travel  tickets  and  accommodation  are 
provided by the resource Yandex Puteshestvia. 
As we see, the process is going on, though there 
is room for improvement. Some experts affirm 
that digital tourism, despite the solutions for b2c-
segment having  emerged long ago, are still “in 
embryonic  stage”,  since  all  projects  are 
concentrated on the limited number of one and 
the same functions (Solvyova, 2022).  
 
The digitalization of regional tourist industries is 
an important trend. Interesting projects exist. For 
example,  the  mobile  reference  guide  “Altai 
Today” with a long list of services was developed 
in the Republic of Altai: booking of hotels and 
excursions, booking of transport and tours from 
travel  agencies,  assistance  in  working  out 
walking, bicycle and automobile routes linked to 
the map, provision of information about sights, 
weather, recreation facilities, prices for services, 
etc. (Altai Today, 2022). This is an example of 
individual initiative. The ideas of bigger players 
are implemented. Thus, several cities and regions 
started building up the digital ecosystem based 
on  the  information  web-portal,  mobile 
application for iOS and Android and software for 
interactive  city  panels  from  the  company 
“Rusatom Infrastructural Solutions” (RIS, a part 
of  State  Corporation  “Rosatom”).  As  it  is 
indicated  in  the  project  presentation,  the 
information portal is  “out-of-the-box”  solution, 
i.e. the customer specifies the brand book content 
and  decides  himself  what  content  should  be 
uploaded into the system (Solvyova, 2022).  
 
The  Republic  of  Bashkortostan  participates  in 
Russian  digital  tourist  projects  (Russpass, 
Russia.  Travel,  etc.)  but  there  is  no  regional 
ecosystem  of  tourism  and  hospitality  in  the 
region. There can come up the question: Why do 
we need it, if the information about Bashkiria is 
accessible for millions of visitors of major digital 
resources? We think we need it.  
 
First  of  all,  the  content  from  the  region  is 
prepared for the large system in compliance with 
the  parameters  set  up  in  this  system.  In  the 
regional  system there  can  be  own  approach  to 
forming the list of services and, consequently, to 
partners’  business  offers  (Markelova & 
Khairetdinova, 2022).  
 
Secondly, digital technologies allow the system 
owner  to receive data  necessary for  creating  a