AGRITOURISM CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK DEVELOPMENT
In accordance with many surveys, it is clear that rural holidays play an important role in diversification of modern touristic places. Its diversity attracts more and more tourists in different countries from all over the world, including Russia. The phenomenon of agritourism has been known in touristic science and practice for a long time. However, a common interpretation of its content and an approach to its classification has not been developed. The article presents a hypothesis, which represents agritourism at the present stage of its development; a special kind of tourism, which unites a number of subclass and their development requires a special set of tourist resources The author has greatly elaborated the science of tourism theory in terms of formation of the conceptual unit of agritourism, including its inherent properties as a special field of tourism; classification criteria (using the results (products) of agricultural production in various forms, the infrastructure and resources of the agritourism facility or the whole countryside, trade activity) according to classes and subclasses. In contrast to the pre-existing partial approaches to agritourism, it allows, to isolate it properly as an independent and complete subject of management facility in the tourist industry. The article presents the author's suggestion on agritourism conceptual framework development, typology of tourist resources use