Open AccessASSESSING THE TOURISM AND RECREA-TIONAL POTENTIAL OF THE REGION: A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH
Author(s) -
Елена Ушакова,
Елена Ушакова,
Марина Цой,
Марина Цой
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
servis v rossii i za rubežom
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1995-042X
DOI - 10.22412/1995-042x-11-4-2
Subject(s) - tourism , recreation , restructuring , purchasing power , context (archaeology) , government (linguistics) , tourism geography , population , resource (disambiguation) , regional science , estimation , business , geography , economics , political science , computer network , linguistics , philosophy , demography , management , archaeology , finance , sociology , keynesian economics , computer science , law
The article is devoted to the issues of comprehensive assessment of the tourism and recreational potential of the region. The shifting strategic priorities of the Government of the Russian Federation is aimed at reducing disparities in the territorial and sectoral development of the country’s regions, rational and effective use of the natural and economic potential. This is relevant in the crisis conditions, characterized by a decrease in the ruble exchange rate and the general purchasing power of the country's population. In this regard, the role of tourism as one of the most promising areas of the national economy in the context of its restructuring and import substitution is growing. The research devoted to an objective and comprehensive estimation of the tourism and recreational potential of the country's regions becomes necessary and in demand. The article deals with the types and methods of assessing tourism resources, approaches to assessing the tourism and recreational potential of the territory at the regional and local levels. Scientific works of domestic and foreign researchers in the field of recreational geography, tourism resource research, tourism economics are the basis for this study. Economic and statistical, structural and system analysis are the research methods of the study. The authors note that currently used approaches to assessing the re-gion's tourism and recreational potential do not cover the full range of criteria and indicators affecting the decision-making on tourism man-agement at various levels of government. Since recreational and geo-graphic approach dominates in the research, the issues of economic assessment of tourist resources receives insufficient attention. The article identifies areas for improvement of methodological ap-proaches to the comprehensive assessing the tourism potential of the region, presents the authorial approach to the tourism potential as-sessment of the region at the municipal level. This approach allows to take into account the unevenness of natural, climatic, historical-cultural and socio-economic and other resources in the regions, to identify the most promising areas for tourism development. Further development of methodological approaches to comprehensive assessment of tourism and recreational potential should be guided by strategic priorities for the regional economy development.