ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS Vol. 4, No. 3, 2019 ENVIRONMENTAL DIRECTIONS OF THE TOURIST POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AT URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS (CASE STUDY OF THE CITY OF KYIV) Margaryta Radomska, Oleksandra Kolotylo National Aviation University, Faculty of Environmental Safety, Engineering and Technology, Department of Ecology, 1, Komarov Avenue, Kyiv , 03058, Ukraine m.m.radomskaya@gmail,
[email protected] https://doi.org/10.23939/ep2019.03.109 Received: 12.06.2019 © Radomska M., Kolotylo O., 2019 Abstract. The development of urban tourism ensures energy in the cities. Thus, there is a need for a higher preservation and expansion of valuable ecosystems and level of environmental awareness of urban population increases the level of ecological culture, which provides to set back the degradation of the environment. Besides saving attitude to the environment. The preconditions of academic approaches to environmental education ecotourism development in cities are analyzed. The through school and university curricula, ecological method for evaluation of ecotourist potential is proposed tourism is an important tool for distribution of and tested on the example of Kyiv. The parameters for knowledge about nature. However, it is primarily the selection and evaluation of the objects that can be interested in pristine ecosystems and natural used for ecotourism organization are considered. landscapes and therefore is still not very popular among the Ukrainian population: it involves distant Key words: ecotourism, urban ecosystem, ecological trail, trips to locations with low level of services and low ecotourism route, ecotourist potential, urban ecotourism. development of infrastructure. Under such conditions in terms of the number of people involved and 1. Introduction preservation of nature it would be more productive to organize ecological tourism inside the cities.