“…Foreign experience covers the study of the creation of special tourist zones and the development of ecotourism in Bulgaria (Arabska, Terziev, 2015), Thailand (Sakolnakorn et al, 2013), South Africa (Rogerson, 2015), Russia (Ovcharov et al, 2015) and other countries (Saufi et al, 2014). Russian and foreign scientists note the importance of the development of ecological (Evstrop'eva, Korytnyi, 2016), rural (Maksanova, 2017) and educational (Chizhova et al, 2016) tourism in the Baikal region (Rubtsova, 2014), the introduction of the green economy (Pakina, 2014), the application of geoinformation technologies (Kuklina, Bayaskalanova, 2015) and the integration of climate change (Kirillov, Slipenchuk, 2017). A lot of attention is given to the Baikal region which is a unique place in Russia in South-East Siberia.…”