Ecotourism in Western Siberia: issues and topical solutions

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the recreational potential of Western Siberia, problems of implementation and prospects for the development of Ecotourism in the area. The authors describe specially guarding natural territories of the Tobolsk area, in terms of originality and aesthetic significance, natural potential and biological variety. The unique floristic area is also analyzed. The basic reasons for the low efficiency of Ecotourism are considered below. The authors consider opportunities of using of multilingual digital multimedia resource to solve this problem. Suggested specialized presentational product “Tobolsk mainland” is aimed at exploring a wide range of local and foreign network users with unique capabilities of ecological tourism in geographical description in Western Siberia.