DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL TOURISM: ORGANIZATIONAL, INSTITUTIONAL, AND FINANCIAL ASPECTS

Marina V. Vinogradova, Anna A. Larionova, Irina A. Suslova, Elena V. Povorina and Natalia M. Korsunova

Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, 2015, vol. 15, issue 2, 123-136

Abstract: The aim of this article is to study the modern social tourism and foreign experience for the development of scientific and practical recommendations as to development of social tourism in Russia. The subject of the research is a variety of organizational and economic, institutional aspects of development of social tourism. The research showed the problems restraining the development of social tourism; it was found that their solution is possible on the basis of combination of various market and non-market elements, including mechanisms of government regulation. Based on the results of analysis of statistic data and results of empiric study, the authors developed recommendations as to development of social tourism. As the main parameters which characterize the development of social tourism, the number of children that recreated in children’s recreational institutions and number of persons accommodated in sanatorium-resort organizations were taken. For evaluation of perspectives of development of social tourism, a forecast for 2015-2017 was developed, using the listed above parameters, experts’ evaluations, and methods of probabilistic and statistic modeling. The calculations, conducted by authors, showed that realization of offers as to development of social tourism will allow increasing the number of recreated persons by 50%.

Keywords: tourism; social tourism; infrastructure; accessible environment; financing; government regulation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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