Doctor of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University Professor is the author of a number of conceptual works in tourism geography and economy and the initiator of new interdisciplinary researches in the field of tourism. She gave a scientific justification for cyclically-wave nature of tourism development at global and regional scales using modern methods of mathematical statistics. One of the first in Russia to develop theoretical and methodological foundations for tourism clusters arrangement. She heads new interdisciplinary studies in tourism limology (border studies). An author of more than 100 works on tourism including 3 monographs, 2 reprinted textbooks and more than 60 articles in Russian, English, French, Polish, Serbian, etc. Her researches have found practical application in national tourism development doctrine of Russia. She has been repeatedly invited to lecture in a number of European universities.

In recent years Moscow has been actively reforming and gradually becomes favourable for tourism, cultural tourism primarily. Tourism infrastructure growth, new series of events, realization of innovative projects on leisure and travel and creation of a new image of the city corresponding to its real tourism opportunities – all these make Moscow one of the most rapidly developing tourist destinations in Europe according TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice 2012.