Determination of Southern Altai geography propitiousness extent for tourism development

Abstract

Relief has its personal significance for tourism development. This is natural component, indicating the type of touristic use, which is approved by its basic position as a landscape component. The object of the research of this article is a recreational area of Southern Altai. Southern Altai as a part of the Altai Mountains is characterized by a variety of climatic conditions, landscape uniqueness and complexity of their space-time organization. Hypsometry determines the observability and attractiveness of the territory, vertical roughness of relief defines variety of scenery, horizontal roughness of relief determines variety and passes ability of the territory, slope angles define the prime cost of the recreational engineering constructions, exposure defines amount of solar energy.