Management of the tourism sphere is a well-researched topic with an extensive conceptual and categorical scientific apparatus. But in the light of sustainable development and management of such development, this area takes on new features. Thus, authors believe that the key principles of managing the sustainable development of the tourism sector, along with the classic principles of project management (systematicity, complexity, purposefulness, prioritization and security), are specific, new principles, namely: coordination of the strategic goal of the tourist destination with the goals of the produced tourist product; equal and open interaction between producers of goods and services that make up the «tourist destination» complex; analysis and control of the volume and nature of tourist activities in order to preserve tourist resources; monitoring and control of financial activities for the use of tourist resources; analysis of the resource base of the destination and gradation in the implementation of financial mechanisms of tourist activity; interaction between state and non-state organizations in order to effectively regulate the sustainable development of the tourist destination; use of tools of civil society for the purpose of social region development.
The analyzed principles of sustainable development management of the tourism industry encourage their systematization and the creation of an own system of management principles of the tourism industry sustainable development