Conditions and prospects for green economy development in Crimea

Abstract

The article focuses on the current state and prospects for the development of tourism and the hospitality industry in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea as a driver of the economic development of the region. The basis for such an understanding of the specifics of the economic development of the peninsula is that in recent years, in the total volume of sales of domestic tourism products in the Russian Federation as a whole, Crimea has steadily retained one of the leading places, while having a significant potential for expanding activities in this area. Thus, it seems reasonable to assume that the further progressive development of tourism and recreation will make it possible to consider them as an independent intersectoral economic complex, opening up the possibility of reaching the level of world trends in tourism. At the same time, there are a number of factors hindering the development of regional economy in these directions. Among them one of the main factor, in our opinion, is the fact that the hospitality industry, which includes the tourism and recreational sector, the sector of related services and all that provides infrastructure is a highly energyintensive industry, due to which its effective development and competitiveness are largely determined by the state of the local energy sector. Taking into account the hydrological features of the Crimea, as well as its location in a seismically active zone, which does not allow the construction of nuclear power plants on the peninsula, the object of the study, the results of which served the material for this article, was the level of energy supply for business entities and the population, the search for opportunities to optimize the use of non-standard ( renewable) sources of electricity, as well as the identification of possible sources and mechanisms for financing the construction of relevant energy supply facilities.

Keywords

• resource-efficient economy
• tourism and recreation
• renewable energy sources
• «green financing»
• public-private partnership
• energy supply