Course of lectures on the discipline “Recreation Geography”
Lecturer: Roman Vyacheslavovich Plokhikh.
The aim of studying the discipline: to develop the ability to analyze the basic theoretical and methodological provisions and concepts of recreation geography, identifying their relationship, understanding the practical significance of the resource potential and the characteristics of tourist-recreational systems and other territorial entities from the position of organizing recreation and tourism.
While studying the discipline, students should develop the following competencies:
- contextualize and explain in your own words the basic concepts and discuss the history of their development, the current state and trends in improving the theory, methodology and practical activities in the field of recreation geography;
- analyze the terminology, theoretical and methodological foundations of recreation geography, scientific and applied foundations of the territorial organization of tourism and recreational activities, resources and specific criteria for assessing the potential for the development of recreation and tourism;
- argue for specific information in the field of recreation geography, factors and conditions for the development of recreation and its territorial organization, applied methods for designing territorial recreational systems, a plan for recreational research based on the achievements of theory, methodology and practical activities;
- constructively participate in the implementation of the tasks of the territorial organization of tourist-recreational activities, the application of modern theories and methods of recreation geography to study specific content in the course of solving applied problems;
- to substantiate the problems of spatial and temporal organization of tourist-recreational activities necessary to solve scientific and practical problems in the professional field, tasks of researching significant features, connections, functions, relationships and processes in the field of recreation and tourism based on modern theory, methods and technologies.