Register of medical areas of Siberian federal district on the basis of an assessment of the resort and recreational potential of their territories
The paper represents the systematized information about resource opportunities, features of landscape and climatic conditions of the resorts and health resorts in favorable for the development of recreational areas of southern Siberia. The database on natural healing resources is used to form the resorts register and medical-improving areas of the Siberian Federal District. The results can be used for the development of the sanatorium and resort industry within the framework of targeted programs in the sphere of the resort business of the Russian Federation. Also the prospects of development of medical and improving tourism in Republic of Tyva are shown.