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DOI: 10.24411/1995-0411-2020-10306
Marina A. STRELNIKOVA
Bunin Yelets State University (Yelets, Lipetsk region, Russia) PhD in Philology, Associate Professor; e-mail: miss.marst@mail.ru
THE CURRENT STATE OF CHILDREN'S TOURISM IN LIPETSK REGION
Abstract. The article examines the main trends in the development of children's tourism in the Russian Federation, identifies the obstacles to children's tourism's fulfillment of its significant role: to participate in the upbringing, education and health improvement of the younger generation. The destruction of the socio-economic system of the Soviet state radically changed the structure and approaches to organizing children's tourism in the Russian Federation. The author presents a generalized picture of negative processes in children's tourism, based on the results of statistical data over the past 5 years and the results of recent scientific research. At the state level, a number of measures are being taken to resolve the situation, which relate to changes in the regulatory framework and in organizational and management structures. These numerous attempts, however, do not create conceptual foundations in the development of children's tourism, do not have a systemic nature and, as a result, do not give the desired effect. Regional specifics in the children's tourism development reflect the national trends. This is clearly demonstrated by the experience of the Lipetsk region, in which, along with negative trends, the author traces a number of positive points: an increase in the number of children who have rested in children's health camps, the continuation of the traditions of tourism and local history work on the basis of additional education institutions and within the framework of organizing one-day and multi-day tourist trips, activities of the Argamach Archaeological Park and The Forest Park. The article identifies a number of organizational decisions and initiatives as promising areas (the creation of the Committee for the Development of Children's Tourism in February 2020, the results of the Committee's meetings in 2020), which should raise the level of development of children's tourism.
Keywords: children's tourism, children's tourism development problems in the Russian Federation, negative dynamics of children's recreation indicators and health improvement indicators, government regulation of children's tourism, children's tourism in the Lipetsk region, negative trends in the development of Russian children's tourism in general, positive experience of children's tourism in the Lipetsk region.
Citation: Strelnikova, M. A. (2020). The current state of children's tourism in Lipetsk region. Service and Tourism: Current Challenges, 14(3), 72-81. doi: 10.24411/1995-0411-2020-10306.
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УДК 338.48
DOI: 10.24411/1995-0411-2020-10306
СТРЕЛЬНИКОВА Марина Анатольевна
Елецкий государственный университет им. И.А. Бунина (Елец, Липецкая обл., РФ) кандидат филологических наук, доцент; e-mail: miss.marst@mail.ru
СОВРЕМЕННОЕ СОСТОЯНИЕ ДЕТСКОГО ТУРИЗМА В ЛИПЕЦКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ
В статье рассмотрены основные тенденции в развитии детского туризма в РФ, определены препятствия на пути выполнения детским туризмом своей значимой роли: участвовать в воспитании, образовании и оздоровлении подрастающего поколения. Разрушение социально-экономической системы советского государства кардинально изменило структуру и подходы в организации детского туризма в РФ. Автор представляет обобщенную картину негативных процессов в детском туризме, основанную на результатах статистических данных за последние 5 лет и результатах недавних научных исследований. На государственном уровне принимается ряд мер по урегулированию ситуации, которые касаются изменений в нормативно-правовой базе и в организационно-управленческих структурах. Эти многочисленные попытки, тем не менее, не создают концептуальных основ в развитии детского туризма, не имеют системного характера и, как следствие, не дают желаемого эффекта. Региональные особенности развития детского туризма отражают общероссийские тенденции. Это наглядно демонстрирует опыт Липецкой области, в котором наряду с негативными тенденциями автор прослеживает ряд положительных моментов: увеличение количества детей, отдохнувших в детских оздоровительных лагерях, продолжение традиций туристско-краеведческой работы на базе учреждений дополнительного образования и в рамках организации однодневных и многодневных туристских походов, деятельность археологического парка «Аргамач» и СК Форест-парк. В качестве перспективных направлений в статье назван ряд организационных решений и инициатив (создание Комитета по развитию детского туризма в феврале 2020 года, итоги совещаний Комитета в 2020 году), которые призваны поднять уровень развития детского туризма.
Ключевые слова: детский туризм, проблемы развития детского туризма в РФ, отрицательная динамика показателей детского отдыха и оздоровления, государственное регулирование детского туризма, детский туризм в Липецкой области, общие негативные тенденции в развитии российского детского туризма, положительный опыт Липецкой области в развитии детского туризма.
Для цитирования: Стрельникова М.А. Современное состояние детского туризма в Липецкой области // Современные проблемы сервиса и туризма. 2020. Т.14. №3. С. 72-81. DOI: 10.24411/1995-0411-2020-10306.
Дата поступления в редакцию: 22 июля 2020 г. Дата утверждения в печать: 4 сентября 2020 г.
Introduction
Children's tourism is a stable segment of Russian domestic tourism that generates income for both organizers and destinations [16]. The economic effect of the development of this type of tourism is obvious: the group nature and regularity of travel during vacation time create an opportunity for business planning and obtaining a stable income. But the commercial component is by no means the main thing that should be a priority when it comes to children's tourism.
It is necessary to emphasize the social significance of children's tourism. It is associated with the upbringing, education and health improvement of the younger generation, which will determine the state of society in the future. Children's tourism can be viewed as a means of forming a correct attitude towards the environment, ecological awareness [14, 15].
Excursion programs for schoolchildren expand knowledge of academic subjects and can be used as additional material in the development of secondary education programs. The excursion method is successfully implemented in career guidance work and is an important component of the education and upbringing of schoolchildren.
Recently, negative trends in the development of this type of tourism have become clear in Russia: the network of tourist facilities is shrinking, the volume of children's tourist traffic is decreasing [5, p. 52; 11, p. 87-88]. All this is a consequence of systemic problems that require a deep analysis of the situation.
The purpose of this article is to summarize the main trends in the development of children's tourism in the Russian Federation on the example of the Lipetsk region. The regional aspect in disclosing the topic of children's tourism is important and relevant. Firstly, it reveals the local features of the functioning of this sphere, and secondly, it demonstrates the region's experience in the implementation of decrees and projects adopted at the federal level and aimed at solving global problems of the industry.
The complexity of the period experienced by children's tourism, the unresolved issues of principle, the lack of a clear program of action to change the situation explain the
stable interest in this topic. Scientific reports, articles and dissertations, legislative documents are devoted to the subject. There are the following directions in research on youth tourism [4, p. 48]:
• the history of the development of youth tourism [12];
• theoretical and conceptual base of youth tourism [13];
• the role of youth tourism in the development of regions [11];
• issues of integrated security;
• problems and prospects for the development of children's tourism [1, 2, 5, 6];
• state policy in the field of youth tourism [10, 12].
The problems of children's tourism are the subject of both scientific discussions and at national discussions. We analyzed information on the events held at various levels for the period from 2016 to 2020. The sample is based only on national and all-Russian events, where legislative and executive authorities at the federal level act as organizers. The sample is not include events in the regions of the Russian Federation.
The State Duma. Round tables on the problems of children's tourism: 2017 - 3 events.
Government of the Russian Federation. Children's Tourism Meetings: 2020 - 2; 2019 -3; 2018 - 3; 2017 - 2; 2016 - 3.
Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. Public hearings: 2019 - 3; 2018 - 1; 2017 - 4; 2016 - 31.
Children's tourism congresses: 2017 - 2; 2016 - 2.
Conferences, round tables, seminars: 2018 - 4; 20 17 - 32.
Thus, children's tourism is constantly in the field of vision of the authorities and all organizations interested to this. It should be noted that the tragic event in Syamoze-ro in 2016, as well as in a tent camp in the Khabarovsk Territory in 2019 that revealed a number of negative trends in the organization of children's tourism, became an incentive to
1 http://government.ru/department/467/events/
(Accessed on 12.05.2020)
2 https://tour-vestnik.ru/materialy-soveshchaniy-
slushaniy-zasedaniy-s-yezdov-po-detskomu-tur-
izmu-i-otdykhu) (Accessed on 12.05.2020)
discuss the long-standing problems of children's tourism.
The situation in 2020 was compounded by the coronavirus pandemic. However, since the beginning of 2020, the problems of children's tourism have been the subject of the agenda of meetings at various levels. As a rule, they all declare the fact of the unsatisfactory state of children's tourism and the need to revive it. (March 11, 2020 - creation and first meeting of the Committee for the Development of Children's Tourism, May 15, 2020 - All-Russian online meeting "Children's tourism as a priority area of domestic tourism in Russia and its development in the new reality", June 2020 - online meeting Chairman of United Russia Dmitry Medvedev on measures to develop domestic tourism and support the tourism industry).
This series of events, presented in retrospect, allows us to conclude that the state, on which the future of children's tourism largely depends, to regulate the situation. However, until now, the state of children's tourism is still difficult, and constant discussions do not give the desired effect.
Children's tourism in Russia: issues and solutions
A comparative historical analysis helps to identify the problems that currently exist in the segment. Many studies have noted the positive experience of the development of children's tourism during the years of Soviet power [7, 9]. Comparison of the achievements of the pre-perestroika period with the current state leads to disappointing conclusions.
With the breakdown of the former socio-economic structure, the situation in children's tourism has radically changed. First, its infrastructural component was destroyed. State funding for children's travel of all types has significantly decreased, and institutions related to children's and youth tourism (circles, sections, clubs for tourism and local lore) were closed or redesigned [2, p. 122].
Children and youth segments are the most stable segments of social tourism, which receives funding from the state budget every year [10]. "Out of brackets" is the question of the sufficiency of the allocated funding for its full development.
The anxiety of the situation is aggravated by statistical indicators that demonstrate
a decrease in the percentage of healthy children. This fact is noted in many works, and, in our opinion, is the driving mechanism that should prompt an early search for ways to improve the nation's health. Children's tourism can play an important role here [7].
Such statistics can be explained by various reasons: difficult economic conditions, decreased quality of medical care, the state of the natural and anthropogenic environments, nutrition, etc. Undoubtedly, these figures were influenced by a decrease in the level of availability and a deterioration in the quality of children's recreation and health improvement.
Over the past five years, we have been witnessing an annual decline in the number of children's health camps. According to the FSGS, the number of children's health camps (total, thousand) was: 45.2 - in year 2015; 44.5 - in 2016; 43.7 - in 2017; 42.2 - in 2018 year. The number of children who rested in them over the summer fluctuates, but tends to decrease (in thousands): 4661.2 - in year 2015; 4787.1 - in 2016; 4422.5 - in 2017; 4274.4 - in year 2018.3 In 2019, the number of children increased by 57 thousand and amounted to 4331.4 thousand.4 The figure is small, but indicates the beginning of a reverse process towards the growth of indicators.
Beside the reduction of the children's health tourism facilities network and reducing the number of children who have rested in them, there are a number of other problems identified in scientific publications [1, 5, 6, 12]. Let's present their generalized list:
• lack of a developed theoretical base;
• lack of the necessary legislative framework;
• lack of a clear distribution of powers, areas of responsibility between various bodies and departments;
• lack of unity in the organization of children's tourism by the authorities, business and education;
• lack of uniform standards of activity in the field of children's tourism;
• low price availability of children's recreation;
3 https://rosstat.gov.ru/free_doc/doc_2019/rus-fig/rus19.pdf) (Accessed on 09.05.2020)
4 https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/GOy-irKPV/Rus_2020.pdfB) (Accessed on 11.05.2020)
• scarce material base, implementation of financing on a residual basis;
• decrease in the institutions for additional education in the areas of tourist and local history activities, centers and stations for young tourists;
• decrease in the number of children involved in hiking and excursions;
• lack of a system of professionally designed educational excursion routes and strategies for their promotion;
• lack of clear official statistics etc.
Such an impressive list of interrelated
problems has been existing throughout the post-perestroika period. And this is despite the adoption by the government of a large number of regulatory documents, the initiation of various projects, the creation of structures responsible for this segment of tourism.
Let us briefly list only the most ambitious, in our opinion, facts of state participation in solving the problems of children's tourism.
Recently, the Government of the Russian Federation has adopted the following documents:
- The list of instructions of the President of the Russian Federation on the organization of recreation and health improvement of children. Pr-1300 (6.07.2016).
- Concept for the development of additional education in the Russian Federation until 2020. The Action Plan for 2015-2020 was approved. on the implementation of the Concept of additional education for children.
- Strategy for the development of education in the Russian Federation until 2025.
- On amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation in terms of improving state regulation of the organization of recreation and health improvement of children. Federal Law No. 465-FZ dated 28.12.2016.
- On amendments to the Federal Law "On the Basic Guarantees of the Rights of the Child in the Russian Federation" in terms of creating additional guarantees of safety in the field of organizing the recreation and health improvement of children. Federal Law of December 27, 2019 No. 514-FZ.
- On improving public administration in the field of tourism and tourist activities. De-
cree of the President of the Russian Federation dated June 5, 2020 No. 372.
Since 2013, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, in order to popularize the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation and to familiarize young people with the history and culture of Russia, has been implementing the National Program of Children's Cultural and Educational Tourism.
The program is expanding every year. So, if in 2013 the project was presented by the route "My Russia: city of Peter the Great!" (18,231 people from 31 regions of the Russian Federation took part), then the National Program of Children's Tourism "My Russia" included 12 routes in 2018 (20,416 children from 85 regions of Russia took part). Since 2019, the program has been implemented as part of the Culture National Project, one of the national projects that were developed on the basis of the President's Decree "On National Goals and Strategic Objectives of the Development of the Russian Federation for the Period until 2024".5
In year 2016, the federal project of excursion and educational tourism "Live Lessons" was created. This project is aimed at expanding and deepening knowledge of school subjects while traveling around the country and, in our opinion, has great prospects. The project recreates the traditions of excursion business of the 19th century, when educational excursions were an obligatory part of the educational process. Now it includes more than 50 regions of Russia, more than 500 tour operators are working on routes for schoolchildren, more than 3,000 tourist products have been developed, integrated with the subject of academic subjects. Tour operators have created such projects for children's tourism as "Knowledge Wagon", "Patterns of Russian cities" and others.6
By the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 05.29.2017. The years 2018-2027 have been declared the Decade of Childhood. In accordance with this Decree, a Plan of Key Activities for 2018-2020 was prepared and approved in 2018. This plan
5 https://www.culture.ru/s/detskij_turizm/ ( Accessed on 10.05.2020)
6 http://www.zhivye-uroki.ru/about/ (Accessed on 10.05.2020)
includes positions that are directly related to children's tourism: "Modern infrastructure of childhood", "Ensuring the safety of children", "Healthy child", "Comprehensive education for children", "Cultural development of children", "Development of physical education and sports for children "," Safe Children's Rest "," Affordable Children's Tourism ".7
In February 2020, the National Union of the Hospitality Industry (OSIG), together with the Federal Project "Living Lessons" with the support of the Federal Agency for Tourism (Rostourism), organized the Committee for the Development of Children's Tourism. At the first meeting of the Committee in March 2020, it was decided to form a Coordination Council for the development of children's tourism, which will include representatives of the federal and regional legislative and executive authorities in the field of tourism and education, tour operators, public organizations, infrastructure facilities from all federal districts.8
Hopefully, these newly created structures will bring children's tourism closer to the desired result and fulfill their mission, which everyone once expected from the Coordination Council for the Development of Children's Tourism under the leadership of Olga Golodets sand the Government of the Russian Federation, formed in 2014.9
The steps to revive children's tourism, indicated in the resolution of the Committee for the Development of Children's Tourism, seem to be no less significant. Here are the some of them:
- the possibility of creating in the structure of Rostourism Department for children's tourism, in the regions - departments for children's tourism;
- to form regional bases of excursion and educational routes, taking into account educational programs in academic subjects and extracurricular activities on the basis of available tourist resources,
- creation of a unified information platform for children's tourism;
7 http://government.ru/docs/33158/ (Accessed on 14.06.2020)
8 http://www.zhivye-uroki.ru/coordinacionni-sovet-i-rezolutsia/ (Accessed on 14.06.2020)
9 http://government.ru/docs/15768/ (Accessed
on 14.06.2020)
- development of a loyalty system for families traveling with children; ensuring public control over the implementation of these measures10.
The result of the online meeting of the chairman of "United Russia" Dmitry Medve-dev on measures to develop domestic tourism and support the tourism industry was another good news - Rosturizm in 2020 expects to launch a program to support children's tourism and travel subsidies11.
Perhaps 2020 will prove to be an important stage for revival of children's tourism. Children's tourism in Lipetsk region The current Strategy for the development of tourism in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2035, as well as the Strategy for the development of tourism in the Russian Federation for the period until 2020 in the part related to children's tourism, have their own peculiarities of implementation in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. In this article we have systematized the information and present a generalized picture of the main trends in the development of children's tourism in the Lipetsk region.
The difficulty in preparing this section was the lack or inaccessibility of the necessary statistical data. Invaluable assistance in this sense was provided by the Tourism Development Department of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Administration of the Lipetsk Region, providing some factual and digital data.
Below is the experience of updating the directions of the Tourism Development Strategy in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2020, federal and regional projects over the past 5 years in the Lipetsk region.
In year 2015 a coordinating council for the development of children's tourism in the Lipetsk region was created.
In 2017 the Lipetsk region for the first time entered the National Program of Children's Cultural and Educational Tourism "My Russia" with the regional route "Lipetsk -Spiritual origins ". In the period from September 20 to November 30, 2017, the region was
10 http://www.zhivye-uroki.ru/coordinacionni-sovet-i-rezolutsia/ (Accessed on 14.06.2020)
11 http://www.zhivye-uroki.ru/rosturizm-zapustit-programmi-podderzhki-detskogo-turizma/ (Accessed on 13.06.2020)
visited by 900 children from 18 regions of the Russian Federation. The route included acquaintance with the history and spiritual culture of the cities of Yelets, Lipetsk, Zadonsk, as well as a visit to "the Galichya Gora" nature reserve and "the Kudykina Gora" park.
This program deserves special attention, since, in our opinion, it demonstrates the positive experience of federal support for children's tourism and the popularization of the historical and cultural heritage of Russia among children. How important this is leaves no doubt. Thanks to the national program of children's tourism "My Russia", children from different regions managed not only to broaden their horizons and gain new knowledge, but also to visit those parts of the country where they might never have traveled. It is such trips that form patriotism, civic position and, of course, with the help of the excursion method, they give children knowledge in various fields.
In the frame of the activities for the implementation of the activities of the Program for the development of children's excursions and tourist routes in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation for the period until 2020 (the Strategy for the development of tourism in the Russian Federation for the period until 2020, approved by the order of the Government of the Russian Federation of May 31, 2014 No. 941-r), the subordinate institution Department of Culture and Tourism of the Lipetsk region OAU "Regional Center for Event Tourism" has developed a draft of a single package of proposals "Educational excursions for schoolchildren of the Lipetsk region".
The Regional Center for Event Tourism has formed more than 50 children's excursion and tourist routes of various directions: military-patriotic, ecological, historical and local history, cognitive, pilgrimage, vocational guidance. Career guidance excursions are conducted both at the leading enterprises of the region, and, for example, at the site of the agricultural cooperative "Chastnoye Pod-vorye" (Troitskoye village of Lipetsk region), including for disabled children and accompanying persons from the Lipetsk city all-Russian organization "All-Russian Society of Disabled People".
In the Lipetsk region, excursion and educational routes have been created for schoolchildren in grades 2-11 in the following areas:
- landscape and dendrological natural monuments (The Galichya Gora reserve, Zadonsky district; The Voronezh biosphere reserve, Usmansky district; The LOSS - forest-steppe experimental selection station, Stanovlyansky district);
- historical memorable places (Kulikovo field, border with the Tula region, Bertsovo village; Yelets - the city of Battle Glory; Dank-ov - an ancient city in the Upper Don region; Lipetsk - "Peter's times", "Resort town"; Zadonsk - the center of Orthodoxy);
- famous people lives (Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, st. Astapovo, Lev-Tolstoy settlement; Buninskie places, Yelets; Tikhon Khren-nikov, Yelets; G.V. Plekhanov, Lipetsk; P.P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky, Urusovo village, Ryazanka village, Chaplyginsky district);
- ethnographic (Romanov toy, Lipetsk region, Yelets lace, felt boots, Yelets, Yelets region);
- economic development of the region (center of the metallurgical industry, Lipetsk, NLMK Museum);
- universal excursions (Lipetsk, Yelets, Za-donsk).
Currently, the educational organizations of the region have 260 associations of tourism and regional studies, in which 4398 students are engaged.
We should pay special attention to such a form of organizing children's tourism as tourist trips. Such trips have a serious cognitive level, bring up valuable qualities and heal the body during the hike thanks to the optimal combination of physical activity and the beneficial influence of natural factors. The usefulness both for health and for the formation of the personality of this type of tourism was noted by many researchers.
This type of children's tourism has a long tradition and continues to develop at the present time in the Lipetsk region [3]. For example, 12 846 schoolchildren took part in hiking trips around their native land in 2016. About 100 schoolchildren participate in trips of different categories of difficulty.
Within the framework of this direction, 88 routes have been developed, 82 of them
can be used to pass the standard of the TRP complex "Tourist hike with testing of tourist skills".
Schoolchildren go on trips along small and large rivers of the region, study and describe the composition of water, the state of coastal vegetation, soil, and hydraulic structures. Such trips can be considered not only as sports tourism, but also as educational and ecological tourism. The geography of the hikes includes the The Voronezh river, The Krasivaya Mecha river ,The Don river, as well as small rivers, they are - Repets, Belokolo-dets and others.
Educational routes for walking and cycling in the Zadonsky district of the Lipetsk region have been developed and are very popular among children. During the trip, schoolchildren get acquainted with the monuments of Orthodox culture, architectural and natural objects, visit modern tourist sites - Safari Park, Forest Park.
Routes of hiking in the places of events of the Great Patriotic War at the territories of the Dolgorukovo, Volovsk, Terbuny, Yelets, Iz-malkovo districts. These routes represent an example of the formation of a civic position in children, patriotic education, along with physical training and health improvement. Acquaintance with military events takes place in school military-historical and historical museums along the route: in the village of Ga-tische in the Volovo district, in the villages of Bolshaya Boevka and Yekaterinovka in the Dolgorukovo district, in the village of Cossacky and village ofSolidarnostin the Yelets region, in the village of Chernava, in YjeIzmalkovo dis-tric and Stanovoe village and Vtorie Terbuny village.
Weekend hikes are the most popular form of tourist travel for schoolchildren in the Lipetsk region. Such trips are carried out in the spring and summer for recreational and educational purposes. Small in duration 1-2-day hikes are carried out in sports, health-improving and specialized tent camps, organized by educational institutions of the region.
In addition, students of the Lipetsk region that receive additional tourism education in specialized institutions and associations, make more difficult, categorical, tourist travel. These routes are longer and longer,
include the territories of Lipetsk and adjacent regions.
Water routes of the 1st category of complexity have been developed along the following rivers the Voronezh, the Don, the Krasivaya Mecha, the Bystraya Sosna. Pedestrian category hikes lasting 7 days or more are made in the Dobroe, Yelets, Chaplygin, Zadonsk, Gryazy districts. An interesting cycle route of the 1st category of complexity is being implemented from Kulikov Pole in the Tula region to the city of Zadonsk.
A tourist sports ground was opened at the suburban base of the Yelets regional center for children and youth tourism in the village of Argamach-Palna. An event tourism product has been popular (festivals of historical reconstruction "Lodeynoye Pole" and "Rusborg", Pushkin's holiday in Korenevshchi-no village, a holiday on Kulikovo Pole) in recent years.
Since Soviet times, it has been and remains the most popular type of children's tourism, recreation in summer camps. Infrastructure of children's recreation and health improvement in the Lipetsk region is represented by country health camps, camps with a day stay, campgrounds, labor and recreation camps, children's sanatoriums.
Table 1 - The number of health camps in the
Lipetsk region
Year 2020 2019 2018 2017
Country camps 17 16 17 15
Day camps 367 385 365 377
Labor and recreation camps 62 65 58 51
Tent camps 107 118 122 1112
Table 2 - The number of children rested in chil-
dren's camps in the Lipetsk region
Year Country camps Tent camps
2019 15523 4354
2018 16946 4367
2017 14234 4040
The Department of the Consumer Market and Pricing Policy of the Lipetsk Region has established the average cost of a voucher for out-of-town stationary children's health
camps. In 2020, the average price of a child's three-week vacation was 16,300 rubles. In 2019, the average cost of a voucher was 14,464 rubles. This is 1,836 rubles, or 12% less than in 2020. Note that in 2018 the average price of a voucher was RUB 13,834.12
It is necessary to note the unique, in our opinion, experience of work in the children's tourism of the archaeological park "Ar-gamach" (the village of Argamach-Palna, the Yelets district, Lipetsk region). The initiators of this project are archaeological scientists, whose main goal is to popularize the historical, cultural and natural heritage of the region.
The organizers pay special attention to the issue of education, upbringing, socialization and health improvement of children and adolescents. In summer, a children's tent camp "Argamach" functions in the park. Various forms of organizing child labor and recreation are used here: archaeological excavations, hiking, cycling and car excursions, horseback riding, labor landings, sports and professional competitions, lectures, participation in master classes. Children are accommodated in replicas of medieval tents. Children's camp shifts have a specialization, one of them is "Agriculture from the Stone Age to the present." In the course of its implementation, trips to modern agricultural enterprises are organized for children: a dairy farm, an elevator, a sugar factory, a potato warehouse; thematic lectures are read; children help in the preparation of hay, in caring for animals, and take part in pumping honey. The average cost of a voucher for a 14-day shift is 8.500 rubles for children from 10 to 18 years old.
Conclusion
Thus, children's tourism in the Lipetsk region reflects the general situation in the Russian Federation: the number of tent camps is decreasing, prices for vouchers to country health camps are increasing. The following organizations are involved in the organization of children's tourism: "The Center for the Development of Children's Recreation" , "The Sports and Tourism Center of the Lipetsk Region" park named after B.G. Lesyuk", Yelets (V.M. Leonov).
12 https://gorod48.ru/news/1895443/ (Accessed
on 05.07.2020)
However, travel companies are poorly represented in the regional market of children's tourism: only the Regional Center for Event Tourism is actively involved in the development of excursion routes and various projects within the framework of children's tourism. There are no specialized travel companies involved in the creation of children's tourism products.
Nevertheless, it is worth to pay attention to the positive experience of the region. The number of children who have rested in children's out-of-town health improvement and camp camps has been increasing since 2017. In the Lipetsk region, the dynamics of organizational forms and methods can be traced - from walks and excursions to participation in technically challenging hikes and competitions, rallies, museum and research work continues to develop such a form of organizing children's tourism as hiking trips, school trips and tourism and local history work.
There are examples of children's recreation and tourism infrastructure facilities worthy of attention and use of such experience. These include the Argamach Archaeological Park, The Forest Park, which are very popular with children.
Children's tourism is a unique socio-cultural phenomenon with a powerful educational impact.
Fully sharing the position of V.P. Golovanov, I would like to emphasize that the main problem of children's tourism is related to the fact that its state importance is not fully realized [7, 18].
Of course, in the article we indicated only the main trends in the development of children's tourism over the past 5 years. The presented picture cannot but raise the question: how, with so many legislative, administrative and normative documents, the presence of special bodies called upon to coordinate and regulate this area, the situation nevertheless cannot be called favorable?
According to many experts in this field and authors of studies, the answer lies in the absence of a unified management mechanism and a targeted state program for the development of youth tourism [6, 7, 12]. It is difficult to disagree with this. However, serious efforts are needed to ensure that the document reflecting the state concept for the de-
velopment of this segment does not become another declaration.
The emerging trends and attempts to solve acute problems in the development of children's tourism, indicated both in the research discourse and at various official sites, determine a number of further actions. In our opinion, promising directions in the revival of children's tourism are outlined in the resolu-
tion of the Committee for the Development of Children's Tourism and in the content of the section "Children's Tourism" of the Strategy for the Development of Tourism in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2035. There is hope that 2020 will be a turning point in the fate of children's tourism in the Russian Federation, and we will move from discussions to business.
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