Tourist and Recreational Zoning of the Chechen Republic

On the basis of a comprehensive study, the tourism and recreation zoning of the territory of the Chechen Republic was carried out, taking into account the peculiarities of its geographical location, landscape structure, tourist and recreational potential, transport infrastructure and spatial features of the region's recreational network. The methods of analysis, synthesis, content analysis, statistical, comparative and cartographic methods were used in the work. The map-scheme of the proposed zoning was developed using CorelDRAW. For each tourist and recreational district the most significant objects of tourism and recreation are identified and the priority directions of tourism and recreation industry development are substantiated. Minimal diversity of tourist and recreational resources and weak recreational development is found in the lowland (semi-desert) district. Among the promising types of tourism there are scientific-cognitive, sports (fishing and hunting) and health tourism. The widest range of promising types of tourism in the region is identified in the mountainous and high-mountainous areas characterized by high landscape and biological diversity. These include scientific and cognitive, cultural and historical, ethno-cultural, geological, extreme, sports (skiing, speleotourism, rafting, hunting, photo-hunting), health-improving (terrenekur), therapeutic (climatotherapy, phytotherapy) and others. Among the limiting factors of tourism development in these areas is low transport accessibility.