Recreational and health aspect of theme park activities

¹ Kherson State Pedagogical University, st. Universitetskaya, 27, Kherson, 273003, Russian Federation
² V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Prospekt Vernadskogo 4, Simferopol, 295007, Russian Federation
³ Ural State Pedagogical University, Kosmonavtov Ave., 26 Ekaterinburg, 620091, Russian Federation
⁴ Yalta Economical-technological college, 16 April street 19, Yalta, 298650, Russian Federation

¹ Corresponding author: kazak_a@mail.ru

Abstract

The paper examines the recreational and health aspect of theme park activities. This study substantiates the idea that theme parks in the modern tourism business should become an alternative to the prohibitive construction of hotels in resort areas and traditional recreation areas. This paper is also devoted to understanding the problem of fulfilling the ambitious goals formulated by the government of the Russian Federation to form a new domestic tourism industry by 2030. According to this project, the tourist flow should double, reaching 140 million tourists per year. By 2030, 300 thousand rooms will be built; this is approximately a third of the existing ones. However, there is an alternative solution to this problem. For the development of the tourism industry, today it is more important not to build new hotels, but to create an additional tourist flow in order to increase the occupancy and profitability of existing hotels. The most effective tool for this is the creation of year-round theme parks that can attract millions of tourists to the regions and thereby reduce the seasonality of tourism.