INDIGENOUS TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA

Abstract

The paper focuses on researching the Russian practices of indigenous tourism development, as well as involvement of Russia’s indigenous people into the touristic activities. According to this subject, several tasks are set: to analyze the terminological problems of indigenous tourism; to represent the landmarks of Russian state policy, concerning the development of indigenous tourism; to describe the problems of indigenous tourism emergence and development by the examples of some Russian regions since the mid 2000s to present time. The problems of indigenous tourism development were reviewed with the examples of several Russian regions. Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and KhantyMansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra territories were described as positives examples. Khabarovsk Kray and Altai Krai were reviewed as the example of fairly unsuccessful regions in terms of indigenous tourism. The analysis of the Russian experience of tourism development in the areas populated with indigenous peoples allows inferring that the development of indigenous tourism in Russia is still at its initial phase.

Keywords

• russian federation, indigenous tourism, aboriginal tourism, ethnic tourism, indigenous peoples