The demand for tourism and recreation in natural
landscapes is steadily growing and the offers of
tours are outstripping the solution of problems
and issues related to the management of such
destinations. The practice of using natural
reserves as tourist destinations sets the task of
conscious reconciliation of nature conservation
and tourism functions. In foreign practice, this
task is traditionally solved for such forms as
national parks. In Russia, along with national
parks, nature reserves are increasingly becoming
a common and accessible form for recreation,
and it is in their territories that we most often
observe a conflict of nature management. On the
one hand, nature reserves are very attractive for
recreation and tourism, since there is practically
no protection regime for their valuable natural
complexes. On the other hand, its function as a
natural reserve is incompatible with
anthropogenic impact from recreation activity.
The study of recreation and tourist flows carried
out by us is interesting because its object is
atypical for the tourist function of reserves –
nature reserves, and the subject of the study is not
route-organized tourist and recreational flows,
but the areal nature of their tourist development.
In the course of the tourist and recreational flows
studying in the Kurgalsky Nature Reserve of the
Leningrad region and assessing their impact on
natural complexes, among other tasks, we made
an attempt to determine the conceptual and
methodological foundations of monitoring to
ensure a sustainable management model for such
a destination as a nature reserve. The
substantiation of the monitoring methodology as
a tool for implementing a sustainable management model of a nature reserve as a
tourist destination is the content of this article