This article highlights the most important prerequisite for creating a system of optimal management models for regional tourism development, namely the theory of optimal development of the regional economy and the consistent application of the principle of optimality to management.

optimal management, development of economic sectors, price, profit, profitability, material incentives, resources (systematic approach), cycle of principles.

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