Geosystem Approach to the Exploration of Tourist Space in the Context of Sustainable Development of Domestic Tourism in Russia

Aim. Justify the possibility of applying a geosystem approach to the development of tourist space in the Russian Federation.Methodology. The work on the analysis of the sustainable development of tourist space was carried out in the context of the geosystemic paradigm, which has become well-established in geographical science in recent decades. It enabled the authors to substantiate the geosystem approach and adapt the methods of system-structural analysis to the study of the tourist space. The work included several stages: organizational, analytical, informational, applied and an implementation stage. The combination of geographical methods within the framework of the geosystemic approach made it possible to develop an algorithm for the general development of the tourist space in Russia.Results. The joint activity of the authors of this article covers the period from 2018 to the present. Over this period an analysis of the theoretical foundations of the tourism spatial organization has been conducted, the scientific and methodological foundations for the formation of interregional tourism projects have been determined, a model of the spatial organization of the“Western Facade of Russia”interregional tourism project has been created, and a starting version of the web portal, which isposted on the Internet,has been developed. One of the most important results of the study is the algorithm for the development of tourist space, the basis of which is the idea of a “territorial tourism and recreation system” (TTRS), based on a “supporting tourism and recreation framework”. In the course of joint work there was identified an interregional tourism and recreation system that underlies the tourist space of the zone of the “Western Facade of Russia” interregional tourism project, covering the territory of four adjacent regions located between the Moscow Capital Region and the state border in the west of the country.Research implications. The theoretical significance of the work lies in the establishment of scientific and methodological foundations and the creation of an algorithm for the development of tourist space based on the geosystem approach, which was tested on the example of an interregional tourism project. The practical significance of the study lies in the possibility of using the “Western facade of Russia”web portal in the organization of tourism activities on the territory of four constituent entities of the Russian Federation.