Environmental tourism in Crimea: experience in implementing the sustainable development principles

Irina Yakovenko ,Svetlana Yu Tsohla ,Anna I Karlova ,Leonid Stanislavovich Karlov

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202129605001

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https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202129605001

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Abstract

The conceptual basis of modern changes in tourism is a sustainable development, the basic principles of which are most translated into the idea of ecological tourism. The paper presents the results of a study of the organization of ecological tourist routes and programs in protected areas of the Crimean peninsula. Spatial differences in the density of ecological route network, the functional structure of routes and trails, the degree of their infrastructure and information support were revealed. Attractiveness of the routes is dueto the high concentration of socially significant objects of natural and cultural heritage within boundaries of protected areas. For ecological tourism, the most developed are mountain-forest and coastal areas located in the south-west, south and south-east of Crimea. The implementation heterogeneity on the principles of environmental, economic and social sustainability in regional ecotourism development was established. Violations of the regulation principles of recreational load on natural complexes, preservation and reproduction of the resource quality, insufficient use of potential of local communities in the management system of ecological tourism were revealed. Constructive suggestions for optimizing ecotourism in Crimea on the sustainability principles were formulated.

Highlights

The paradigm of modern tourism provides for the transition to sustainable development, which is understood as achieving a certain balance, mutual alignment, coordination and unity of priority goals of the three main areas of tourist process — social, economic and environmental
Justification of strategic decisions in the field of organization and management of ecological tourism in specially protected natural areas (SPNA) of the Russian Federation needs the study of successful practices of sustainable development and identification of current problems in different regions of the country (The Strategy for the development of tourism in Russia Federation, 2019)
Analysis of domestic and foreign publications demonstrated the lack of a universal definition of the sustainable development principles of tourism in relation to its ecological variety

Summary

Introduction

The paradigm of modern tourism provides for the transition to sustainable development, which is understood as achieving a certain balance, mutual alignment, coordination and unity of priority goals of the three main areas of tourist process — social, economic and environmental. The concept of sustainable tourism development runs into difficulties of lack of appropriate tools to implement the principle of balancing the economic, social and environmental goals of stakeholders. The criteria for assessing the tourist territory capacity and throughput (destination, local object) is not systematized, there is no unity in understanding the content of regulatory and legal support, organizational and economic management mechanisms for sustainable development of ecological tourism. The study goal — to develop proposals on optimizing the functional, territorial and management structure of ecotourism in Crimea on sustainability principles based on the study results

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Results and Discussion

Special study methods of ecological tourism problems in the region

Conclusion