Nowadays hotel industry experiences some fundamental changes in the process of doing business. Modern circumstances present opportunities of further hotel business development and, stimulate hotels to pay more attention to labor motivation. These circumstances require full revision of current motivation systems. The purpose of study is to improve methods of labor motivation currently used in hotels. Methods are selection, systematization, analysis, observation, comparison and questionnaire. The article has the results according to which the authors have systematized the existing theories of labor motivation and socio-psychological factors influencing this concept. The authors have carried out the analysis of the world and domestic experienc...