Some usage features of tourist-recreational resources of mountainous regions of Europe (on the example of Italy and Austria)

Abstract

Mountain tourism development is considered the universal solution to socio-economic challenges occurring in mountainous regions. This type of tourism has an opportunity to become one of the means of solving the challenges in the mountainous areas of Georgia, which increases its role in our country.

Tourism has become one of the major fields of the economic development of Georgia in previous years. The importance of tourist-recreational resource application, research, evaluation, and management is increasing yearly. However, complex research of those resources requires the integration of many scientific fields, in which Geography has a crucial role due to its capacity to detect space-time features of tourism development in mountainous regions of the world.

The paper discusses tourism development and tendencies of the European mountain regions, where special attention is attracted to the expertise of Italy and Austria.