Akademik Məlumat İdarəetmə Sistemi
Economic and Social Development, Baku, Azerbaijan, 18 - 19 June 2020, no.3, pp.521-532, (Summary Text)
The paper is devoted to the analysis of strategic governance of tourism development in Azerbaijan. The relevance of the research topic is determined by the active state policy of tourism development, as one of the priority sectors of diversification of the national economy and boosting the socio-economic level of development of the country as a whole. Therefore, the formation of tourism development strategy and its effective implementation is one of the most effective organizational and economic mechanisms to increase the share of tourism income in the country's economy. In this regard, the purpose of our research is to investigate the practical aspects of the development and governance of tourism and to carry out the quantitative assessment of the results of implemented actions in this sphere. The concepts in the field of effective organization and governance of tourism were served as the methodological basis of the research, in which the dialectical method and the principle of systematic approach were also used. It is obvious that the improvement of strategic governance of tourism development is an efficient method that allows to solve the systemic problems of tourism industry as a whole, identify the most perspective directions of its development and intercalation of tools to the process of governance of tourism that allow the rational usage of the existing tourism potential. In concern with aforementioned in our paper we have proposed an institutional and organisational mechanism for improving the strategic governance and development of tourism in Azerbaijan