On April 12th, the 9th International Scientific and Practical Conference "TOUR FACTOR 2018" – "Event Tourism as the Main Factor of Area Development" was held in Kazan. The arrangers of the Conference are the State Committee on Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Kazan (Privolzhsky) Federal University, the Research and Education Center "Znaniye," the Association of Hotels in Kazan and the Republic of Tatarstan, and the Association of Sanatoriums and Resorts "Tatarstan Sanatoriums."