CROSS-BORDER TOURIST-RECREATIONAL REGION OF THE "YUZHNOPSKOVSKO-VITEBSKY": SPECIFICITY OF FORMATION AND PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT
Border areas have advantageous conditions for the development of international tourism. Cross-border tourism and recreational regions are a new form of cooperation in the feld of tourism and recreation of border areas. The territories where the development of this form of cooperation is possible are the southern regions of the Pskov region (Russian Federation) and the Vitebsk region (Republic of Belarus). Within these territories, we have identifed the cross-border tourist-recreational mesoregion “Yuzhnopskovsko-Vitebsky”. The article analyzes the main and additional features by which one can rate the presence and degree of formation of this cross-border tourist-recreational mesoregion. The articlealso considers the tourism potential, tourism infrastructure and development prospects of this Russian-Belarusian cross-border tourism and recreational region. The most promising types of tourism here include cultural, educational, recreational, eventful and ecological