Potential for Recreational-Commercial Tourism in Perm Krai
The article discusses resource opportunities for the development of recreational-commercial tourism in Perm krai. This direction of tourism has the form of travels based on collecting activity, which includes mainly the forest collecting wild edible mushrooms, berries, medicinal plants. The prospectivity of development of this type of tourism in the krai is determined by the presence of the respective biological resources and landscape features. In this regard, the regional research was conducted, the purpose of which was the assessment and geographical analysis of the resource capabilities of Perm krai for the development of recreational-commercial tourism. The proposed method of assessing the capacity is based on the application of mathematical-statistical methods of information processing. It is based on the rating assessment and typology of municipal districts of Perm krai according to resource tourist opportunities using mathematical statistics methods - factor and cluster analysis. The study used an integrated approach based on such significant evaluation criteria for this type of tourism as the availability of forest resources, landscape diversity, transport availability and accessibility, limiting factors of the natural environment. The results of a rating estimation of districts of Perm Krai are presented. The geographical analysis of territories of Perm krai according to the resource potential is conducted based on typology of districts of the krai, which allows combining districts into groups (types) with similar opportunities for the development of recreational-commercial tourism. Areas of Perm krai with different potentials are determined that to a certain extent affect the priority and sequence of development of this direction of tourism in different areas of the krai.