MODERN FEATURES OF TOURISM SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Tourist and recreational space is the object of study of recreational geography and occupies a special place in the research of tourism and recreation. Some researchers believe TRP subspace geographical space, and marks it less structured and knowledge. This article attempts to gener-alize different points of view to the definition of TRP and to propose the author’s position. In the study of various publications on TRP, the following features were identified. From the point of view of social Sciences, TRP is studied the characteristics of the behavior of tourists and lo-cal residents, social factors, their impact on lifestyles, their diversity, value orientations of indi-viduals. There are concepts of “space of rest”, “social space of tourism”. The economic approach involves the study of tourism and recreation as part of the economic space, operating in such categories as tourist and recreational complex, destination, clusters. TRP is considered as a set of subjects of economic activity, as a branch of the economy and a source of replenishment of the budget. In this case, the cluster approach becomes the main one in its formation and develop-ment.