Youth and educational tourism is an important tool for youth socialization and a factor of modern cultural reproduction

Youth and educational tourism has been considered through the prism of youth socialization as a tool of modern cultural reproduction. The research is based on a combination of diff rent approaches, such as activity-based, axiological, institutional, and project-based. A separate aspect of the study is a value-based approach analysis carried out in order to understand youth tourism as a means of translating and internalizing values important to individual, society, and state. Tourism is a space where basic cultural and social values (patriotism, tolerance, collectivism, etc.) are consolidated, and this organically correlates with the strategic priorities of the state youth policy in Russia. As a conclusion, it has been indicated that youth and educational tourism is a complex socio-cultural phenomenon that combines educational, axiological, and identification functions. It is a unique social tool, combining educational and cultural components, the most important direction of forming human capital of the younger generation, contributing to training active and socially responsible citizens who can not only to assimilate, but also to convey values that are significant for Russian society. In addition, tourism serves as a tool of soft power, ensuring the national values promotion and forming a positive image of the country in the interstate space, and acts as a unique space for integrating action, communication, and experience, where not only knowledge and skills are formed, but also ways of relating individual to culture, society, and the state.