Annotation

The article examines digital tourism platforms as a specific phenomenon of the platform economy in the tourism sector. Drawing on an analysis of regulation in the European Union (the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, and the Package Travel Directive), the distinctive features of the United States’ approach to online intermediaries, and the emerging regulatory framework of the Russian Federation (legislation on consumer protection and personal data, as well as draft special regulation of tourism aggregators), it substantiates the need for a coherent model for the legal regulation of digital tourism platforms. The author proposes a definition of a digital tourism platform, offers a typology thereof, and identifies key models of legal regulation. On the basis of comparative analysis, the article develops proposals for improving Russian tourism legislation, taking into account the platform-based nature of contemporary tourism services.