ASSESSMENT OF NATURAL AND ECOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT CONDITIONS OF TOURIST-RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN MUNICIPAL AREAS OF THE SAMARA REGION
The list of municipal districts of the Samara region, the most promising for the development of recreation and tourism, has been determined. The study is based on data on the ecological well-being of municipal districts of the region and on the availability of specially protected natural areas (PAs) as a form of preserving and organizing the rational use of the most valuable natural recreational resources.
Keywords: specially protected natural territories, environmental impact indices, natural recreational resources, region, tourism.
Highlights:
♦ the role of protected natural areas in the adaptive development of tourism and recreation is determined; services in the tourism and recreation sector are systematized by categories of PAs;
♦the ranking of municipal districts of the Samara region is carried out by the level of ecological well-being and the presence of specially protected natural territories;
♦ measures to optimize the tourist and recreational load on the natural objects of the region are proposed.
Daria V. Amelkina, Master of Tourism, Master of State and Municipal Administration; Maria S. Guseva, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor, Samara State University of Economics; Natalia N. Kalutskova, Candidate of Geography, Associate Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University.