CONCEPT OF RECREATION ENVIRONMENT OF THE REGION: CONCEPT-TERMINOLOGICAL SYSTEM

Abstract

Problem Statement and Purpose. The article deals with the research of the recreational and tourist potential of the region. The purpose of this study is to discuss and develop the concept of a recreational environment that would simultaneously combine the characteristics of industry environments (natural, social, economic, etc.) with integrated environmental assessment for human life. Object of study – the concept of recreational environment of the region; subject of study – component (block) and microcomponent (sectoral) characteristics of recreational potential.Data & Methods. As a methodological basis used the developments that are outlined in scientific papers published by O. Beidyk, E. Kuśen, O. Lubitseva, O. G. Topchiev are used. Both general scientific methods (analysis and synthesis, systematic approach, induction and deduction) and specific scientific methods were used in the work: historical-geographical, comparative-geographical.Results. The concept of recreational environments is proposed, according to which the resource potential of the territory is structured according to sectoral and branch environments – natural, social, cultural-historical, technogenic, economic, possibly political (managerial). The environmental approach is focused on comprehensive, in­tegrated assessments of the recreational potential of the territories. It complements and deepens the traditional component methodology of resource potential. The choice of the regional scale of the study of recreational potential is caused by the fact that at this level the interaction of natural-geographical prerequisites and socio-economic factors of recreational-tourist activity becomes the most obvious and accessible for statistical-economic, cartographic and geo-information study. At the regional level, the available mapping material is combined with reporting and statistical information.In the study of the recreational potential of the territory there is a consistent complication of its component composition: the classic structuring of tourism resources into natural and historical and cultural has expanded significantly at the expense of socio-economic components. In the further development of the recreational poten­tials of regions and cities, it is necessary to combine component and environmental approaches with the objectives of the study. The methodological requirement for the assessment of regional recreational potential is as follows: each type of recreation and tourism, as well as recreational and tourism activities as a whole are subject to as­sessment, by their recreational potential - and by component, by all types of regional recreational potential, and integrated by the regional. The authors also present a gen­eralized composition of tourist and recreational activities with a schematic rubrication of its individual components.