Ecotourism as a factor of the development of off-season tourism in southern Russia

Abstract

This paper, provided by the authors, focuses on the prospects for the development of ecotourism in the southern Russia. In recent years, ecotourism is becoming increasingly common in the modern world. According to experts, in the past decade, ecotourism has developed three times faster than the tourism industry as a whole. The southern regions of Russia, for a number of objective and subjective reasons, have all the conditions for the development of tourism. They own vast environmental resources, the use of which, along with the dynamically growing demand for tourism services, will naturally lead to intensification of the development of infrastructure and the territorial organization of ecotourism.