SMART CITY TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

The study of opinions about the components of the "smart city" allows us to assert the need for modern research of this phenomenon of reality. According to experts, Kazan is one of "the wonderful examples of a smart city where the old and the new are very unusually intertwined." Tourist resources of both Kazan and Tatarstan find their niche at international and Russian exhibitions. The Strategy for the Development of the Tourism Sector in the Republic of Tatarstan for 2016 - 2021 and for the Period until 2030 and the Strategy of the State Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan for Tourism “contains directions for the development of tourism in order to create a hospitable, hightech, territorial, infrastructural, legal, organizational, managerial and economic environment favourable for the further development of the tourism industry in the Republic of Tatarstan”. Today Kazan is not the only “smart city” in Tatarstan. In our opinion, it is important to focus on the fact that Smart technologies and other elements of the “smart city” are being actively used in the development of the tourism sector in our region.