Section

Urban Planning and Rural Planning

Title

RECREATIONAL RESOURCES OF SPECIALLY PROTECTED NATURAL AREAS IN KARELIA: ATTRACTIVENESS ESTIMATION

Сontributors

O.M. Pakhomova, Cand. Geog. S., Scientific Employee at the Geographic Faculty,

S.N. Zhagina, Scientific Employee at the Geographic Faculty, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University

Abstract

The article is devoted to one of the most actual factors in the tourism industry development — assessment of recreational resources’ attractiveness for protected areas (PAs) in Karelia. For ten different PAs there were assessed such important attractiveness criteria as the availability of natural (biological, hydrological, geomorphological and geological), historical, cultural and ethnographic resources. Also the comparative analysis was done for the PAs areal size, attendance and use in popular tourist routes. Based on the integrated assessment of water resources, the class of sustainability to anthropogenic pressure has been identified with compiling of diagrams, reflecting the stability of classes for Karelian lakes, using in recreational activity. The most vulnerable are the most large lakes with pure waters (Topozero and Pyaozero), as well as the small shallow ponds (Kenasa, Levi). The more stable water reservoirs (Ladoga, Upper Kuito and Suojarvi) retain their properties, while maintaining the current level of external and internal impact. PAs are the basis for the development of different tourism types, that increases the value of these areas and make their creation an economically profitable.

Keywords

assessment, attractiveness, recreational resources, protected areas.

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