The Krasnodar Region’s Division into Cognitive Tourist Areas

Abstract

The article describes the division of The Krasnodar Region into cognitive tourism areas according to their main functions that reflect attractiveness, distribution and placement of historical cultural and natural objects. The division will allow targeting the Region’s cognitive tourism facilitation. It indicates the meaning of the cognitive tourism area as a recreational tourism territory, including historic cultural and natural objects. It gives the grouping of the cognitive tourism areas: Gelendzhik area, Mostokaya area, Primorsko-Akhtarsk area. The paper draws a summarizing division scheme and the diagrams of distribution of historical cultural and natural objects across the recreational tourism areas and zones. It suggests four characteristic groups of the cognitive tourism objects in the areas. The first group comprises the recreational tourism area zones with more than 20 historical cultural and natural objects; the second group – from 10 to 15; and the third group – less than 10 objects of cognitive tourism. The description of the Krasnodar Region’s cognitive tourism areas provides a basis needed to understand the development processes in the cognitive tourism of the Region, the regional areas, recreational tourism zones and centers. The present research lays the foundation for the systematic study of the cognitive tourism areas and unique characteristics of distribution and placement of the objects. Taking into account these characteristics will ensure the target solution of the scientific issues, such as defining the development perspectives of infrastructural objects, their types and volume in the cognitive tourism areas.