Integral Componentwise Estimation of Tourist and Recreation Potential as a Universal Tool for the Research of Destination Possibility

摘要

The article analyzes the integral componentwise estimation using a system of balanced indexes as one of the effective estimation methods for the tourist and recreational territory potential. This method implicates the following of a certain algorithm of the study, which includes a number of evaluation stages sequencing. The result of each past the point directly affects the final indicator of the integrated assessment. As an example of the application of this technique in economic and geographical studies, we choose such a component of the tourist and recreational environment as water resources. This type of resources is prospective for the development in the studied region, as the Volgograd region is a territory with a developed hydrographic network. As the main studied indicators we took the lake landscapes, watered landscapes and the degree of moisture dominant in the landscape landform. The research found out that lake indexes and the degree of moisture tracts are optimum while the water logging landscapes index is negative. The integral assessment showed the average attractiveness of this component of the natural environment for recreants. This method of assessing the tourist and recreational potential has shown its validity and is recommended by the authors for such studies.