DISTRICTING AND AREAL DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM

Abstract

The tourism with its widest range of resource interests acts as a counterbalance to modern tendencies of social and economic space compression. In Russian regions there is a growing interest in «areal development» of tourism, which requires higher degree of territorial organization than the «site development». Fractional zoning is a geographical tool for involving the entire region in the tourist processes, but it still has a low applied value for tourism in Russia. The provinces of Canada are the world leaders in spatial delimitation for the purpose of practical tourism. All ten provinces of Canada actively use fractional tourist zoning, basing it on different principles, however. The Canadian experience of representing provinces in tourist mosaics should be taken into the account in Russian regions. Basing on the results of our studies and the experience from the Canadian provinces it is necessary to allocate the following tourist areas in the Perm region: North Urals, Mining Urals, Preduralje, Parma, Upper Kama, Middle Kama and Lower Kama.