DOI: 10.36871/ek.up.p.r.2020.10.03.0010
UDC 338.48

Authors

V. S. VARIVODA,
PHD of the Department of Tourism and Service, Stavropol State Agrarian University, Stavropol, Russia

Abstract

The article discusses the conceptual foundations of the spatial development of tourism, determined by the interaction of tourist destinations, as a basic element of the tourist and recreational system. The presented results of the scientific article are of a pronounced practical nature, are of scientific interest for specialists in the field of regional economics and spatial development of territories. In scientific research, the author places greater emphasis on the competitiveness and management of the spatial development of the tourism industry on the principle of "top-down", the author considers it necessary to consider the possibility of management on the basis of "bottom-up", taking into account the local and local level of the tourist destination. To understand the significance of a tourist destination, the article reveals the essence of this concept, offers its author's interpretation.

Keywords

tourist destination, space, spatial development, administrative-territorial unit, tourist and recreational space, tourist-recreational system.