THE BASIC TOURIST AND RECREATIONAL FRAMEWORK OF THE ZHYTOMYR REGION AND PROSPECTS FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The process of formation and development of the basic tourist and recreational framework of Zhytomyr region from the 50s to the present is investigated. The study is based on system-structural analysis, spatial-temporal and spatial-functional approaches. Geographic information technologies were used to visualize the existing tourist and recreational space of the region. The program GOOGLE/DYNAMICWORLD/V1 based on ArcGIS PRO and R was used to analyze the existing tourist and recreational resources of the region. The author's definition of the basic tourist and recreational framework of the territory is given, which includes a linear-nodal system of spatial organization of tourist and recreational activities, in which the nodes are developed tourist areas that have stable and regular national and transport and communication links with each other. The ways of classifying spatial structures of tourism and recreation are considered. Until 1990, the region had an underdeveloped tourist and recreational framework with few known loci for visiting, i.e. a linear type, which gradually moved to a more complex monocentric radial-ring type with the central core of arrival – Zhytomyr. It has been established that the supporting tourist and recreational framework of the region is formed on the basis of four tourist and recreational districts: Berdychiv, Zhytomyr, Zvyagel, and Korosten. Each district has its own branched system of tourist and recreational potential, an axis with its central tourist core of the second rank. The study revealed a number of factors influencing development.It has been established that, based on a comprehensive assessment of the tourist and recreational potential in the Zhytomyr region, there is a basis for the development of various types of tourism: event, sports, museum, sacred ecological, sports, rural, ecological, and health and wellness. The analysis of the origin and current state, as well as the prospects for the development of the basic tourist and recreational framework of the Zhytomyr region, allows us to conclude that it is sustainable. The results can be used to further improve regional tourism policy.