Existence of huge number of types of tourism contributing to high-quality recreation and leisure can influence consumers of tourist services. Tourism for children can be an effective means of education, socialization, source of value formation, education, physical recreation and health improvement of the nation. After all, the organization of high-quality children's recreation and leisure pursue such goals. Sports tourism is aimed at improving physical fitness, makes it possible to maintain health, and is an active pastime for tourists. Tours of this orientation captivate the children's audience, contribute to the harmonious development and the correct direction of their strength and energy. Ecotourism aims at familiarization and unity with nature, the study of the surrounding world as the highest value of travel. Ecological routes allow children to get a complex of knowledge about the environment and ecological awareness, expressed to preserve and not harm nature. The combination of the presented types of tourism makes it possible to develop and design a rich program of tourist services aimed at providing a child with a full-fledged active recreation. Assessing the current trends in tourism, it can be noted that the population is increasingly interested in children's program tours with a sports and environmental orientation. This is due to the fact that in the modern world, with the availability of multimedia technologies to children from an early age and with the total involvement of the younger generation in the use of Internet resources for entertainment purposes, there is an urgent need to organize vacation leisure for children, aimed primarily not at passive recreation, but active pastime. Children's tourism should contribute to the intellectual and physical development of the individual, have a rich program implemented through natural resources, professionalism of the organizers and a set of events. The Republic of Crimea has significant tourist resources of both natural and cultural-historical nature. Natural conditions and the main stages of the historical development of the Republic make it possible to form tours of various directions aimed at various segments of tourists. The allocated tourist resources can become the basis for organizing children's sports and environmental tours.

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