Оптимизация рекреационного природопользования в бассейне оз. Байкал на сопредельных территориях России и Монголии

OPTIMIZATION OF RECREATIONAL MANAGEMENT IN THE BAIKAL LAKE BASIN AND ON ADJACENT TERRITORIES OF RUSSIA AND MONGOLIA
D.V. Sevastjanov
St.-Petersburg State University, St.-Petersburg, Russia,
Summary
Recently in Russia and in Mongolia more and more attention given to problems of nature protection and recreation and tourism development. Recreational nature management became the direction of economy based on rational use of natural resources, suitable for a recreation: for restoration of forces and health of people, for sanatorium treatment and various kinds of rest (active and passive). Both in Russia and in Mongolia until now the development of ecological tourism occur spontaneously. But gradually interest of the countries in conservation of biodiversity and rational use of recreational potential of territories, to development of the ecotourism kinds at the base of strictly protected areas and with an increase of «the organized travel to the nature» increases. In both countries the basin of the lake Baikal enjoy the increased interest of the Russian and foreign tourists, including also the lake of Huvsgol, and river system of the Selenga, connecting these largest lakes of Russia and Mongolia. The international tourist flow in this region permanently increases. Measures of optimization of nature management problems and development of joint recreational nature use in the lake Baikal basin offered. Author has shown, that the optimization of transboundary recreational nature management will give a new impulse to a development of economy of northern areas of Mongolia and areas adjacent to the lake Baikal in Russia.