Approaches to the Study of Urbanized Tourist Areas

Abstract

Introduction: in the modern world, cities have become a place of concentration of the main part of the world's population. Under these conditions, urbanized territories act as capacious territories of tourist value. In this regard, it is important to study urbanized territories as areas of concentration of tourist and recreational activities. Materials and methods of the research: the problems of urbanization and the definition of urbanized territories are studied by many Russian and foreign scientists. Most of the works are devoted to the problems of cities and urbanized territories, agglomerations as centers and areas of population concentration, industrial and social spheres. In the field of tourism, the main attention in scien-tiic works is paid to the deinitions of tourist territories and recreation, as well as recreational zoning. There are also studies of the attractiveness of a tourist area, which usually use sociological and geographical approaches. The results of the study and their discussion: the article studies the concepts of urbanized and non-urbanized territories in Russia and in the world, as well as their differences. In addition, the definitions of "urbanized agglomeration", "tourist territories", "urbanized recreational zones" are given, and the definition of "urbanized tourist territories" is derived from the result. Conclusions: urbanized tourist areas are of great interest for research and at the present stage, researchers distinguish tourist areas, tourist recreational areas and urbanized tourist areas.