Abstract
The development of scientific and educational tourism in the conditions of modern reality is accounted for by a number of reasons, but its purpose remains unchanged – it serves as an information source and a means of communication. In the context of provisions of the World Tourism Organisation, Russia is in possession of extremely promising areas for scientific tourism; therefore, scientific tourism may be regarded as a product of an agreement between scientists, which is supposed to provide due conditions for the formation of competitive scientific results within the framework of prospective and demanded research. This article attempts to consider the prospects for the development of scientific tourism in Volgograd region and to analyse and identify the possibilities of using the available corpus of knowledge about Trekhostrovsky sanctuary for continued research in the field of scientific and educational tourism involving the resources of the Southern Federal District. The modern trends in professional studies exploring the ethnographic status, historical and cultural heritage of Russia’s unique resources represent one of the universal categories of scientific tourism and are treated in terms of natural cognitive features within the subject area of psychological anthropology in the context of studying the system of relations between culture and personality on certain conditions and in certain forms. It is quite obvious that the federal and regional resources represented by natural and anthropogenic objects in Russia can act as a competitive product of innovative scientific tourism. The potential for the development of scientific tourism in Volgograd region lies in the peculiarities of the anthropogenic objects of Donskoy Nature Park, as can be exemplified by the religious and mythological traditions of the unique Trekhostrovsky sanctuary, with generalisation of the available scientific materials, based on the analogy of cultural components inherent in the stone and fire worship cults.
Highlights
The present and the future of the world scientific and cultural heritage exists tangentially in relation to the past, while the interest in the study and development of scientific tourism is of utmost importance as a growing trend
Volgograd region has very promising regional resources, as concerns prospective research of natural and anthropogenic objects representing a competitive product which can subsequently serve as a basis for the development of scientific tourism and for extension of the domestic-market range of tourist services, including those of educational character
A significant decline in sale of tourist packages, as concerns inbound tourists visiting Volgograd region, i.e. the flow, which includes both external and internal consumers of tourist services, was observed in 2020, amounting in total to 380.5 thousand, which can be explained by the global situation of restrictions imposed in connection with the spread of coronavirus infection and limitations on people’s travel [1]
Summary
The present and the future of the world scientific and cultural heritage exists tangentially in relation to the past, while the interest in the study and development of scientific tourism is of utmost importance as a growing trend. The object of consideration of the present article is Trekhostrovsky sanctuary; the mythological sacral complex of the Volga-Don-area population is reconstructed and analysed on the basis of folklore and ethnographic materials, as a resource for scientific and cognitive potential with a psychological dominant viewed through culturological significance of exploration maturity of the given archaeological monument. The basis for this consideration is the actual existence of the unique Late Bronze Age archaeological site in the Volga-Don region
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