Abstract. The article describes the experience of numerical score of socio-economic recreation and tourism resources of 30 dependent states and territories in the world. The choice of this specific category of countries as a spatial object of study – dependent and non-self-governing territories – is conditioned by modern trends of growth of consumer tourist services demand for the unique, specific, secure and high-standard destinations. Such areas often have significant recreational potential that is almost unknown to the Russian market of tour offers, and because of this – not in demand. The study found that almost all of the analyzed dependent countries offer a wide range of tourist and entertainment services, where Anguilla, Aruba, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, French Polynesia have especially well-developed infrastructure. For comparative characteristic and numerical score of socio-economic recreational and tourism resources of these countries the numerical score matrix is developed. It includes seven indicators, each of which is rated on a five-point grade scale. Following the results of the integrated assessment of tourism and recreational resources all analyzed dependent states and territories are grouped into five groups: 1) having the lowest characteristics of recreation and tourism resources (Wallis and Futuna, Niue, American Samoa, Pitcairn, Tokelau, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Falkland Islands); 2) having a lower middle resource endowment (Cook Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat, Norfolk Island); 3) having an average resource endowment (Gibraltar, Ceuta and Melilla, Saint Helena, Turks and Caicos Islands, French Guiana); 4) having a medium-high resource endowment (British and US Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Martinique, Reunion, French Polynesia, Guam, New Caledonia); 5) having a high recreation and tourist resource endowment (Bermuda, former Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico). For a more objective assessment of endowment of recreational and tourism resources of dependent states and territories of the world it is also necessary to take into account the other types and categories of these resources. Nevertheless, the obtained results give overall representative characteristics of the tourism potential of main dependent states and territories worldwide, and the methodology itself is verifiable and for other similar entities of political map of the world.