Modelling Management of Recreation and Tourist Resources (Samara Oblast Tourism Development Strategy)

Abstract

The development of the theory of environmental tourism cannot do without solving the problem of optimizing the management of tourist flows. The authors argue that one of the possible solutions can be an approach based on the theory of the potential efficiency of complex systems. With the development of eco-tourism, conditions are created for a balanced preservation of the environment and natural resource potential, the level of social responsibility of business for the environmental content of economic activity increases. Using the example of assessing the recreational value of the natural resources of Samara Oblast, the authors discuss a matrix model with a breakdown of the "tourist community"by age, level of well-being and health status. On the territory of Samara Oblast there are all the prerequisites for the formation and development of eco-tourism. As a result of the study, the authors obtained some parameters of a steady state for drawing up certain schemes for ecotourism management (in particular, within the framework of the tourism development project in Samara Oblast). The authors came to the conclusion that the assessment of strategies for the recreational use of territories is carried out according to several indicators, therefore, the task of multi-criteria analysis inevitably arises. The authors believe that further improvement of this model should go in the direction of maximum consideration of the "diversity of the tourist community".