The article is devoted to the identification of the recreational potential of the city of Odessa for the development of tourism. For this, the analysis of the existing landscape and rec-reational areas of the city was carried out using the general plan of Odessa (DIPROMISTO, in 2015), DBN B.2.2-12: 2019 “Planning and development of territories” and “Methods for deter-mining the recreational capacity of resorts and recreation areas” (by T. Panchenko). It has been es-tablished that the results of assessing the recreational potential of Odessa make up 20% of the total city territory, which suggests that almost all types of landscape and recreational territories are scarce and disordered, especially in the coastal zone. The capacity of coastal recreation areas on the seashore (near the beach and water area) is set based on the size of the beach area (W1) and the length of the coastal strip (W2). The results show that on the seaside coast of Odessa at the same time on the beach can be more than 53 thou-sand vacationers, although every season the beach recreation area is visited by more than 75 thou-sand people (city residents and tourists), which is not enough for the development of tourism in the city. All this testifies to a huge shortage of coastal recreation areas on the seaside coast of Odessa. Thus, as a result of assessing the recreational potential of coastal common areas, using the example of the city of Odessa, it was revealed: 1. Greening of public areas, namely parks, gardens, squares, pedestrian boulevards, are not evenly distributed throughout the city in relation to the general territory and administrative districts of the city. This is a prerequisite for the use of other territories, including abandoned economic plots in these areas, for new recreational areas, as well as for the rehabilitation of existing parks in a depressed state. For example, an increase in the recrea-tional territories of the Malinovsky district makes it possible to rehabilitate the Savitsky and Dyu-kovsky parks. On the territory of the Suvorov District – restoration and modernization of the exist-ing Luzanovka Hydropark; the creation of specialized parks on the “Fields of irrigation and filtra-tion” (landscape, zoological and botanical) on “Zhevakhov Mountain” – the organization of an open-air museum of architecture and life, a park of architectural miniatures, a golf course. 2. The huge shortage of coastal recreation areas on the seaside coast of Odessa and the lack of free access of the population to the entire coastline makes it possible to reorganize the coastal territory using the abandoned territories of “Irrigation and filtration fields” (Khadzhibey estuary), “Meat-packing plant” and “Odessilmash” for organizing seaside pedestrian boulevards, promenades and public beaches. Also on the territory of “Meat-packing plant” and “Odessilmash” it is possible to create exhibition, sports parks and attractions.