Исследовательский проект “Ecotourism in the Altai Republic”

Ecological tourism (ecotourism) is tourism that includes trips to places with relatively untouched nature in order to get an idea of the natural and cultural—ethnographic features of a given area, which does not violate the integrity of ecosystems. One of the tasks of eco–tourism is to inspire people to love and respect nature, understand its laws, and treat it with care. Recently, ecotourism has begun to develop actively in the Altai Territory. The attractiveness of the Altai Territory for tourists is determined, first of all, by the fact that nature on a vast territory has been preserved in a natural, almost unchanged human condition. The high degree of landscape and aesthetic attractiveness of landscapes, the abundance of natural objects interesting for cognition, as well as the uniqueness of flora and fauna, allow us to recognize that Altai is one of the few large regions of the planet that are the most promising for organizing international ecological tours.