Each country has its own laws governing tourist activities, including the division of tour operator and travel agent business. For example, in Israel for the occupation turoperatorstvom be made to pledge or provide a bank guarantee of up to 250 thousand USD, in other countries, the amount of the guarantee differs in the smaller side. In Russia, the law introduced by the separation of tour operator and travel agent activity, but significant differences in the regulation through licensing is not available, although such attempts to restructure the market is constantly being made.

Highlights the excursion and tourism and excursion offices and bureaus of guides and interpreters. There are other organizations, on its face, the activity of which may relate to tourism (business of tourism, department of trade unions, departmental structure, organizing leisure and office workers).

Thus, in Moscow more than 3,000 travel companies involved in international tourism, in St. Petersburg 900-1200, and all in Russia issued more than 13,000 licenses for such activities. How many tourist companies in Russia of all - no one knows or can estimate, because the statute of virtually any organization has tourism as an activity. Tourism perspective, and just in case it includes the allowed activities. Domestic tourism does not require a license, and so, who and how he deals with - it is not known. Bye!

Directory of travel companies (tour operators and agencies), other countries are huge ledgers of two thousand pages, where the fine print the addresses and details of communications companies. Electronic catalogs as many as half a million addresses of tourist companies.