THE CURRENT STATE OF TOURIST ACCOMMODATION ON THE RUSSIAN COAST OF THE AZOV SEA
The paper considers the current state and problems of accommodation infrastructure functioning on the Azov sea coast in Russia. The authors operate with concepts of tourist traffic, indicators of density and accommodation security, and also the territory requirements for the construction of new means of placement. The quantitative assessment of tourist accommodation on the Russian Azov sea coastline is undertaken to describe two main categories of accommodation: collective means of placement (hotel and recreation facilities with the number of rooms over 15; guest houses and mini-hotels with the number of rooms less than 15; and health-improving institutions, including sanatoria and children's camps) and individual means of placement (private households which are not registered as SP); a comparative analysis of the means of placement provision is also given. With the use of geographic information systems, tourist and recreational zoning of coastal areas of the Azov sea in Russia is carried out and some zones of high and low density of means of placement provision are revealed. The conducted research has allowed us to reveal the demand of administrative regions on the Russian Azov sea coast for collective means of placement, and further to work out a complex of recommendations on the improvement of regional infrastructure of accommodation and priorities of investment infrastructure projects.