Estimation of Recreation Attractiveness and Geomorphic Risks for Recreational Purposes: Case of Nalychevo Nature Park (Kamchatka, Russia)

Abstract

During the past decades recreational activity has become one of the major socio-economic factors of sustainable development in many countries. Its organization is complex and appears a significant constituent of anthropogenic impact on landscape. Creation of a new tourism cluster or expansion of natural recreation resource, along with other scientific and applied problems of recreation, requires precise assessment of the territory. Geomorphology often determines technological peculiarities of land use, such as location and territory zoning, means of transport, safety for recreational system and people involved in recreational activity. To identify interrelationships between geomorphological features and recreational activities the notions of “fields of risk and attractiveness” are considered. Comprehensive study and assessment of each qualitative field gives a value of relief influence on a person. In this sense the territory of Russian Kamchatka is considered as a model. The recreational and geomorphic system in Nalychevo was first investigated by the authors during the field season 2010. The results of this research expedition underlie the assessment procedure of the Nature Park. Taking into account the structure of recreational and geomorphic space is the information basis for effective functioning of existing system and for creation new clusters.