Modern trends of globalization and regionalization of relations in tourism sphere

The article presents the characteristics of modern positions, approaches to the definition for the process of globalization and the factors that characterize its content due to the analysis of scientific research. There were analyzed the current trends in the development of tourism as a global phenomenon of modern times, the main factor for modernization of the economy and development of regions. There were revealed main regularities, contradictions, mechanisms of regionalization and globalization of relations. There was specified the substantive content of the essential definition for these processes in the sphere of tourism.