Touristic regionalization of Amur oblast
This paper presents the territorial organization of tourism activity, and the spatial organization of recreation territories where human demands for recreation are maximally satisfied without adverse effects to natural complexes. The sectoral goals of landscape planning in the sphere of tourism, and the objectives of touristic regionalization for governance of recreation resources are defined. Based on analyzing the natural criteria and the preconditions for a further development of the recreation industry, a touristic regionalization has been elaborated for a poorly developed territory of the southern part of the Russian Far East, Amur oblast. A touristic regionalization of Amur oblast was carried out, having regard to system analysis of the natural preconditions for tourism development, the characteristics of a physical-geographical regionalization of the territory, and to the localization and specific character of the resource potential. Six touristic regions (Bureinsko-Badzhal’skaya, Zabaikal’skaya, Amuro-Zeiskaya, Gilyuisko-Tukuringrskaya, Tokinsko-Selemdzhinskaya, and Priamurskaya), 21 provinces, and promising areas have been identified. In the interests of the regionalization for purposes of tourism and sectoral landscape planning, the names of the main geographical features have been retained, which would facilitate formation of an integral image of the territory. For the touristic regions, the typicality/rarity measure of geosystems at the Amur oblast scale is defined. In the context of landscape planning, the geosystems are considered in the categories of “significance” and “sensitivity”. Very highly significant and very highly sensitive geosystems are located mainly in the Zabaikal’skaya, Bureinsko-Badzhal’skaya and Gilyuisko-Tukuringrskaya touristic regions. In the landscape planning strategy, a touristic regionalization serves as the basis for nature conservation decision-making, and for an effective governance of natural resources.