Scientific center of linking tourism and recreation territories research

It was created to extend and expand scientific research in the development of tourism and recreational activity in the Donetsk region, with the goal of increasing its social, ecological and economic efficiency to improve conditions of life of the population of this industrial region.
Head of the Scientific Center- Nikolay Kudokotsev , Candidate in Biology,  Higher Senior Officer – Sergey Tereschenko , Candidate in Biology; Svetlana Golubnichaya, Candidate in Biology; Igor Semichastny, Candidate in Engineering; Ella Lebezova.
Research officer – Viacheslav Odinokov.
Creation of the Center in the area of GIS-technologies is presented on the site www.ditb-ua.narod.ru.
The basic directions of research and goals of the Center:
- organizing and carrying out scientific research to identify, research, and estimate in detail recreational territories and making recommendations on their use for the development of sustainable tourism in the Donetsk region;
- identifying social and economic features of the creation and development of recreational territories and developing social and economic methods to influence their attractiveness;
- GIS-technologies implantation in the development of the  tourism and recreation activities monitor system in the Donetsk region.
Results of the Scientific Center work:
1. A technique for estimating recreational territory and the ecological-recreational passport have been developed and a monograph has been issued.
2. As part of the Black Sea ecological program TACIS, the fourth and fifth stages of the pilot project, “Prospects for the Development of Sustainable Tourism in Yalta on the Azov Coast”, have been developed. It has been approved by leading experts of the World Tourist Organization and of travel agencies in Europe, and received a favorable estimation at the session of the Council of Europe in Brussels.
3. Under the coordination of the Industrial Ecological Union “Donbass-Azov Coast XXI”, a “Program for the Development of Tourism at the Azov Coast and Within the Limits of the Donetsk Region” has been developed and referred to the Donetsk State Regional Administration.
4. Recommendations on optimization of landscape with the use of plants and small architectural forms have been developed based on the example of the central part of Urzuf village.
5. Research and schematic designs for the development of a new theme park  “Trans-Asov legends” outside the security zone of the “Kamennyye Mogily” reserve were developed and referred to the Reserve’s Director. A certificate of the copyright registration of this work N 13248 was got.
6. A monograph «Methodology of the recreation territories estimation»– authors are Valentine Danilchuk, Galina Alejnikova, Anna Bovsunovskaya, Svetlana   Golubnichaya
7. Suggestions for the improvement of tourist accommodations, rest and leisure infrastructure, and development of new tourist routes within the limits of “Sviatyye Gory” National Park were provided for the project developed by the Management of City-planning and Architecture of Donetsk and referred to the Administration of “Sviatyye Gory” National Park.
8. A scientific study and schematics of the tourist centers creation were carried out on the territory of a regional landscape park «Kleban-bick», «Donetsk Ridge», «Poloveckaya Steppe», outside the nature protection area of natural preserve «Khomutovskaya Steppe» and also on the territory of a state forest reserve «Velikoanadolskiy Forest». This work was executed on the basis of the complex program of tourism development and resort and recreational industry in 2005 – 2010 and confirmed with a decision of the the Donetsk Regional Council session from 15.02.2005 N 4/25 – 583. Results of this work were passed in the State administration of the Donetsk region.

Scientific research work in the Research and Recreation Department of the DITB library:
1. “Research on Tourist Opportunities in Recreational Zones of the Donetsk Area and the Economic Efficiency of their Use”. Stage 10. “Development of a Complex Quantitative Estimation Technique for Natural Recreational Zones”. - 1999. - 80 p.
2. “Research on the Potential Use of Natural Resources in a Coastal Strip of the Azov Sea within the Donetsk Region. Prospects for the Development of Sustainable Tourism in Yalta, Donetsk Area. Stage 4. “Estimate of Existing Tourist Resources”. - 2000. – 214p.
3. “Planning for Natural Resource Use in a Coastal Strip of the Azov Sea (Pershotravneviy and  Novoazovskiy Districts)”. - 2001. - 211 p.
4. “Identification, Research and Detailed Estimate of Recreational Territories and Recommendations for their Use for the Development of Sustainable Tourism in the Donetsk region”. - 2001. - 519 p.
5. «Conditions research and recommendations working of tourism development and tourist centers and theme parks creation in the Donetsk region». – The first interim statement.  – 2005. – 220 p.; The second  interim statement.  – 2006. – 166 Ó.; The  closing statement 2007. 295 p.
6. Research and estimation of the tourist recourses of the Donetsk region administrative districts on basis of GIS-technologies - The first interim statement. - 2008. - 192 p.; the second interim statement. - 2009. - 203 p.
Scientific center of linking tourism and recreation territories research  
A further research of tourist and recreational resources of the Donetsk region, their integral assessment for the purpose of a stable tourism development and a creation of the layer map of the recreational resources on basis of informative systems (GIS) are in the plans of scientific center of linking tourism and recreation territories research.