YOUTH HIKING DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH REGION OF UKRAINE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20th – EARLY21st CENTURIES

Abstract

Sports tourism as a kind of sport is developing in all post Soviet countries.The preconditions for its formation werelaid in tsarist Russia, and rapid development was achieved during the Soviet era.There have been some ups and downs in the sports tourism evolution in Ukraine. Children’s and youth’s participation in any sport arethe main factors that determineits development. Therefore,studying and analyzing popularity of hiking among the studentsof Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa regions became the basis of the research.The results of the study make it possible to conclude: the development of sports tourism had several stages;amateur hiking, which was developing in the Soviet time, was the main form of sports tourism;the dynamics of the development of sports tourism in the southern region of Ukraine depends on a number of factors that have both positive and negative effect.

Keywords

• development
• amateur tourism
• sports tourism
• hiking