FOREST RECREATION AS AN ECONOMICALLY ATTRACTIVE AND INDEPENDENT TYPE OF FOREST USE

UDC 630*627.3

  • Nikolai Tarasovich Yushkevich − PhD (Economics), Associate Professor, the Department of Tourism, Nature Management and Hunting. Belarusian State Technological University (13a, Sverdlova str., 220006, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: ushkevichn@tut.by

  • Kozorez Alexander Ivanovich − PhD (Agricultural), Associate Professor, the Department of Tourism, Nature Management and Hunting. Belarusian State Technological University (13a, Sverdlova str., 220006, Minsk, Republic of Belarus); Head of the Department of Hunting Management of the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Belarus (39, Myasnikova str., 220006, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: ushkevichn@tut.by

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52065/2519-402X-2022-258-2-119-124

Key words: recreational activities, forest recreation, income, effective forest management.

For citation: Yushkevich N. T., Kozorez A. I. Forest recreation as an economically attractive and independent type of forest use. Proceedings of BSTU, issue 1, Forestry. Nature Management. Processing of Renewable Resources, 2022, no. 2 (258), pp. 119–124 (In Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.52065/2519-402X-2022-258-2-119-124.

Abstract

Tourism and recreation activity is one of the most dynamically developing segments of the service market of the Belarusian economy. This is promoted by the rich natural potential and historical and cultural heritage of the country, the consistent state policy on development of infrastructure for recreation, tourism and recreation. The growth of recreational needs of the society causes the necessity of essential expansion of the recreational areas. Prospects for the development of tourism and recreation are largely related to the recreational resources of the forest fund.

Recreational activity is an important direction of modern multipurpose forest management. The rational organization of people's recreation in the natural environment solves a wide range of urgent social, economic, forestry and environmental problems.

Forest recreational resources comprise four main components: natural and recreational potential, tourist and recreational infrastructure, historical and cultural environment, environmental situation. Together they give an integral assessment of the recreational potential of the forest fund.

An important condition is that the owners of forest lands should have the right to charge for the service provided.

Foreign experience shows that effective recreational forest use requires favorable natural and socioeconomic conditions, legal regulation and other conditions.

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