Evaluation of tourist resources and tourism infrastructure quality in municipalities

Abstract

The article examines the questions of informational and methodological support of the assessment procedures and analysis of the benefits and risks of tourism development at the municipal level. The information, obtained by expert, is described. It includes monuments; farms and estates; religious sites – churches, temples, cathedrals and monasteries; memorial sites and places of military glory; objects of natural reserve Fund (NRF); beach areas and places of recreation; hunting and fishing sites; museums, museums-reserves, exhibition halls; industrial, agricultural enterprises and organisations that have already become the objects to show or have the potential to become; folk arts and crafts. Assessment objectives of tourism infrastructure in the settlements are associated with the analysis of the state of accommodation facilities, catering, entertainment and Park recreation areas. The method for the quantitative evaluation of the attractiveness of tourism resources and the quality of the tourist infrastructure of municipalities on the basis of expert procedures is described. The technique is approved on the settlements of the Klin district. Quantitative indicators of comprehensive assessment of the attractiveness of tourism resources and the quality of tourist infrastructure are introduced and experimentally approved, as well as indicators of settlements on these characteristics are generalized. The results of the ranking of settlements in the district are described on summary measures. There are proved two possible strategies for development of tourism in the region: extensive, according to which resources are directed towards the development of tourism in accordance with the obtained grades that will allow to achieve a relatively quick economic effect with respect to the settlements with higher grade, however, will slow the development of tourism in settlements with low grades; system – in accordance with existing territorial differences in the distribution of tourist resources and tourist infrastructure zoning district is realized to strengthen the weak areas at the expense of well-developed tourist areas.