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The talk describes the multilingual Dictionary of Tourism (Nature – Culture – Travel) compiled by V.M. Kotlyakov and A.I. Komarova and published in 2013 with the support of the Russian Geographical Society. The Dictionary contains 4350 essential terms, currently used in diverse branches of modern tourism, covering general concepts, types of tourism, maps, organization of tourist business, transportation, infrastructure, physical environment, natural heritage, cultural traditions. The talk explains the methods used for selecting terms to be presented in the dictionary in a systematic way. It also surveys the stages of lexicographic work: the wordlist formation, creation of short definitions for each term in Russian, finding equivalents in English, French, Spanish and German. The characteristic features of tourism terminology: synonyms, borrowings from English and the scope of the terminological system of Tourism is analyzed.