Abstract: A method for assessing the socio-economic efficiency of the recreation and tourism in the macro, meso and micro-level (the share of recreation and tourism economy to participate in the formation of indicators based on GDP and GRP, the amount of deductions in the federal and regional budgets in the form of taxes, the amount of paid by the fund number of new jobs created, compensation of employees, the number of established small businesses, improving the quality of life, etc.) and integrated indicator of socio-economic efficiency of the sphere of recreation and tourism, allowing to objectively assess the level of development of the sphere of recreation and tourism and the degree of satisfaction of population needs by the services is developed in the study.