Abstract

 
 
 The purpose of this publication is to analyze the existing set of results of scientific and applied research in the field of recreational and tourist zoning of Ukraine and identify methodological differences in existing schemes for planning the development of recreation and sectoral zoning. To achieve this goal, the study used a content method of analysis of a set of existing theoretical and methodological approaches to zoning, research and development on the organization and functioning of recreational territorial units. Methods of comparative analysis of the data on the formation of the territorial structure of tourist regions, determining the criteria for taxonomic classification of territorial recreational formations allowed to systematize information about existing world zoning systems and recreational and tourist territorial structure of Ukraine. The information base of the study is the regulatory documents, analytical and statistical materials of the WTO, NTO of Ukraine, scientific publications of leading Ukrainian and foreign researchers on zoning, in particular, zoning to manage and optimize tourism and recreational activities. The study involves schemes for the development and allocation of resources for tourism and recreation, zoning schemes in Ukraine, in the field of recreation and tourism, which were carried out in the period from 1960s to 2020s. Numerous schemes of recreational and tourist division of the country’s territory and its separate regions indicate the confusion of terminology, approaches, standards and rules for zoning the country. In Ukraine, there are sectoral zoning, which are based on the principles of “zona making” conception, however, most sectoral zonings are not compared and do not correlate. The principles laid down in the implementation of sectoral recreational and tourist zoning are not always coordinated with the regulations that exist in the system of spatial planning. The results of the analysis emphasize the urgency of unification of terminology, certainty with methodological approaches to taxonomic classification and selection of taxa within the country. Today the issues of formation of recreational, tourist, resort spaces for the purposes of efficient and rational nature use and development of a competitive national tourist product are solved without a single coordinated recreational and tourist zoning of the territory of Ukraine.
 
 
Highlights
Economic transformations in Ukraine, global financial crises, lack of funding for domestic tourism in our country require more efficient use of all opportunities for further rational management of available resources and develop an effective strategy for the industry as a whole.According to UNWTO, during January-August 2020, international tourist travel decreased by 70% compared to 2019, when there were 1.46 billion tourist trips
The successful development of recreational and tourism activities is due to a number of important factors, including effective audit and assessment of resource potential of territories for tourism and/ or recreational activities, rational use of recreational and tourism resources based on clear schemes of spatial differentiation of regional resources, effective policy states in tourism support, etc
The analysis indicates significant differences in the methodological basis of taxonomization and separation of recreational territorial units
Summary
Economic transformations in Ukraine, global financial crises, lack of funding for domestic tourism in our country require more efficient use of all opportunities for further rational management of available resources and develop an effective strategy for the industry as a whole.According to UNWTO, during January-August 2020, international tourist travel decreased by 70% compared to 2019, when there were 1.46 billion tourist trips. Economic transformations in Ukraine, global financial crises, lack of funding for domestic tourism in our country require more efficient use of all opportunities for further rational management of available resources and develop an effective strategy for the industry as a whole. Military action in the Donbass and the occupation of the Crimean Peninsula led to the reorientation and opening of new tourism destinations, the COVID-19 pandemic showed the importance of domestic tourism. Today’s political-administrative, socio-economic realities in the development of Ukraine allow to review the existing methodological bases used for land division to solve applied problems of recreational geography, in particular, to formulate new approaches to land division for more effective planning of recreation and tourism in the whole country
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