Formation of the ecological tourist and recreational complex (on the example of the Vokhonka river valley in Pavlovsky posad city, Moscow region)

The scientific work describes an approach to carrying out a preliminary stage of geoecological monitoring of tourist-recreational impact on the example of the Vokhonka River valley in Pavlovsky Posad city, Moscow Oblast. Pavlovsky Posad is a territory with active tourism development, the main tourist destinations come to the valley complex of the Vokhonka River. At the same time, the natural areas of small river valleys are vulnerable geosystems. Remote sensing image interpretation and field observation, landscape analysis, methods of functional zoning of urban geosystems, quantitative assessment and ecological and tourist potential assessment are used in the study. As a result of work, the ecological tourist and recreational complex has been identified in the studied area of the Vokhonka River valley. Ecological-tourist opportunities of the riparian area are identified using the adapted A.V. Drozdov’s method. In total, more than 70% of the riparian areas have the medium and high ecological-tourist potential. Local recreation systems, the main areas of ecological tourism development and recreational impact on geosystems, are identified. Recommendations for geoecological monitoring of tourism and recreation impact are given, mainly they are focusing on many local factors as well as the possibility of using former agricultural land for tourism and recreation purposes.