Development tools for economic justification of walking tours in Vladivostok

• Petrova G.A.

  Galina A. Petrova. Vladivostok State University. Vladivostok. Russia

• Margarita A. Taranenko

  Margarita A. Taranenko, Vladivostok State University. Vladivostok. Russia

• Цитцер Арина Александровна

  Arina A. Tsittser. Vladivostok State University. Vladivostok. Russia

Walking tours are a promising segment of the tourism market, however, due to the inconsistency of information about them in information sources, they are not the most attractive ones. The purpose of the research is to offer a set of measures for a route network development of walking excursions in Vladivostokusing theoretical background and analysis of scientific sources. The scientific novelty of the study is deter-
mined by the supplement of the conceptual apparatus by introducing the concept of "route network of walking excursions" into the scientific circulation. During the work, international and domestic experience in the development of walking excursion routes was studied, the register of proposals for walking excursions of Vladivostok was updated. The theoretical basis of the work was based on the use of such scientific meth-
ods as: comparative analysis and synthesis, modeling, classification, deduction and induction, questionnaire. As a result of the study, a set of measures was proposed to develop a route network of walking excursions in Vladivostok.
Keywords: walking tour, route classification, route network, world and domestic experience, register of walking excursions, consumer analysis