Tourist and recreational zoning of the territory of the Adyghea Republic on a geo-information basis

Abstract

The territory of Adyghea is marked by varying degrees of involvement of natural landscape, historical, cultural and modern transport and economic components in the tourist and recreational development. The developed geo-information analytical system is intended for the actual spatial inventory of tourist and recreational resources of the Republic, and for support of scientific and applied research of development of recreation infrastructure based on justifying the scale and specialization of development, assessing the degree of integration of tourism objects into the landscape structure at the local level taking into account natural and environmental conditions. The inventory of tourist and recreational resources coordinated with respect to landscape allocations is formed in the database in the form of a register of objects systematized by type of specialization, nature of resource potential, environmental restrictions, and infrastructure provision traditionally used in cadastral valuation. The structure of the database of the register of objects of the tourist and recreational industry is determined by the structure of the recreational space of the region and the classification of objects. Industry and integral assessment of recreation resources is made in points relative to landscape allocations. The publication identifies the promising centers of district formation with the highest concentration of tourist resources, or attractive for recreants by their specialization. They are the most preferred for further development, for the largest number of purchases of land and real estate for recreational purposes, and for the increasing number of vacationers. The publication identifies the promising recreational areas—the focus of a high variety of objects that are attractive to tourists in an environmentally friendly and highly attractive landscape. These territories should have significant capacity and accessibility to visit, be potential centers for the generation of tourist flows and serve the further development of tourist and recreational areas. The local level of zoning is a recreational area—popular specialized places for visiting or living of recreants, which are objects for successful investment.