The article is devoted to the justification of a comprehensive logistics strategy for the development of urban tourism based on studies of Ukrainian and international experience. Findings. It was determined that in the complex structure of tourism logistics, logistics of recreational and tourist resources occupy an important place. The logistics of the tourism resource base can be viewed at various regional levels, ranging from local to the highest, the meta-level. Each tourist site, city, tourist zone, area, region, country, tourist macro-region of the world and the world as a whole have a resource base. The capacity of the resource base determines the tourist market content of a certain territory. The concept of natural resource and recreational resource potential, landscape capacity and recreational resources are interconnected and integrated into a wider category – the logistic potential of recreational tourism resources (RTR) or tourism resource base (RBT), which in the tourism logistics system of a particular region operate along with the logistics potential of the material and technical base of tourism and the logistics potential of the incoming tourist traffic in the region.