19th International CODATA Conference
Category: Knowledge Discovery

Russian Federation in world system of ecological tourism

Irina N. Tikunova (tikunov@geogr.msu.su )
M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

The Ecological Tourism (ET) is an important aspect of conception of sustainable development. Nowadays all the efforts of the different international organizations trend to the acceptance of the unanimous conception of ET and its further development. The biggest growth of ET shows countries of Asia, Latin America and Africa, where the most part of tourists are international tourists while in Western Europe - internal. The main problems of development of ET for developing countries in the national parks are the low level of infrastructure, the absence of clear management system, insufficient level in qualification of workman; while developed countries have to concentrate their efforts in minimization of damage for nature of the territory developing ET. In Russia the biggest prospects of development belong to “Australian model", that means ET in the national parks. Nowadays National Parks are the only territories where it is possible to check and to plan tourist’s flows. The initial or post Soviet Union conception of development ET in Russia is beginning to change, grate to the usage of the world experience of development and management. The main problems of ET in Russia are the odd of the participants of ET activities, lack of specialized tour-operators, weak legal base, information deficit, expensive transport facilities, low level of service, deficit of specialists in sphere of tourism, skilled in ecological problems and technologies.