Historical overview of children''s and youth sport-and-health tourism in Udmurt Republic
The article gives a historical overview of the children’s and youth sport-and-health tourism in Udmurtia. An objective of the study was to analyse and summarise the specific historical experience of the children’s and youth sport-and-health tourism in the Udmurt Republic with a special focus on its institutional forms and methods. The children’s and youth tourism is interpreted herein as the tourist activity designed for children’s and adolescent’s groups composed of 18- years-old people. The children’s and youth sport-and-health tourism in Udmurtia emerged and developed much in the same way as was traditional for the nation on the whole. However, the Udmurt Republic was different in the sense that the children’s and youth sport-and-health tourism dominated over the other types and forms of tourist activity. The Udmurt children’s and youth tourism emerged in the second half of the XIX century, but its sound institutional basics and core developmental vectors were formed in the period of 1930 to 1960ies. It was in 1970-1980ies that the children’s and youth sport-and-health tourism shaped up as a separate tourist sector. The study demonstrates that it was the tourist walking trip that comprised the most popular and efficient institutional form of the children’s and youth sport-and-health tourism at that time.