КОМПЛЕКСНЕ ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ВНУТРІШНІХ ВОД ПОЛТАВСЬКОЇ ОБЛАСТІ ЯК ОБЄКТІВ ТУРИЗМУ І РЕКРЕАЦІЇ

Abstract

Goal. The purpose of this article is to study the organizational and locally-spatial features of the use of recreational and tourist potential of resources of inland waters of the Poltava region. Methods. The methodological basis of the study consisted of the concepts and provisions of recreational geography, tourism, social geography. The main methods of research are literary, analytical, descriptive, comparative-geographical. Results. The content of integrated use of inland water for tourist and recreational purposes is revealed on the example of the Poltava region. The main directions of this use and the territorial integration functions of water tourism are shown for creation of complex local tourist clusters. Scientific novelty. The scientific novelty consists in developing a scheme (model) for the rational use of recreational and tourist potential of inland water objects of Poltava region and the variant of the integration model of a local territorial cluster of water tourism and recreation. Practical significance. The practical significance of the studies of geospatial aspects of the organization of the tourist and recreational potential of inland waters of the Poltava region is to promote the further development of tourism and recreation on the territory of the region in the form of organizing new tourist routes, developing methodological recommendations for the rational use of the potential of water objects, the development of the relevant infrastructure, increasing its attractiveness for domestic and foreign tourists.