GASTRONOMIC TOURISM: METHODOLOGICAL PLATFORM

Abstract

The article analyzes in detail the methods of research in tourism theoretical and applied. Theoretical methods are based on the development of scientific and methodological foundations of the territorial organization of active recreation. In turn, applied research methods intensify the creation of recommendations in tourism and the tourist sector of the economy. A retrospective analysis of geographic science put forward a descriptive method that was prevalent until the middle of the 20th century, instead of a linguistic analysis (60th years of the 20th century). Continuing the scientific tradition is gaining popularity system approach (60–80-ies XX century.). At the present stage, the Bigouist approach has received universal recognition (interviews, observations, questionnaires, interactive methods). Economic methods, in particular economic-mathematical modeling of the sphere of service, have occupied their niche. In the structure of general educational methods and techniques, three levels are most often distinguished: methods of empirical research; methods of theoretical knowledge; logical methods and methods of research.