Name
Trukhachev Alexander Vladimirovich
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Organization, job position
Stavropol State Agrarian University
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Articles count: 2
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
Rural tourism is not only one of the integral and most
popular type of tourism. It also promotes sustainable
development of rural areas and tourist industry due to
its peculiar features and combination of various
activities. Thus, complexity of “rural tourism” notion
requires comprehensive management approach based
on sustainable development principles. The article
deals with the essence and schemes of sustainable
development as a whole and sustainable tourism
development in particular. From this point of view, the
author analyses the role of tourism in sustainable rural
development as well as the main aspects of sustainable
development of rural tourism. The author offers
grouping of functions of rural tourism in sustainable
development conception implementation by the
targeted object – rural areas and tourist industry