Use of Kryvyi Rih mining and industrial landscapes for various types of sports tourism.

Abstract

Sports tourism is one of the areas of active recreational activities in the structure of mass leisure development. Ensuring sports tourism requires finding and substantiating new areas for hiking routes, expanding the training base with new suitable facilities, and finding new areas for competitions in various types of sports tourism. Anthropogenic mining landscapes are one of the potentially promising areas in Ukraine. In the work for the purposes of sports tourism, they are considered the example of the territory of Kryvyi Rih. In the article description of mining landscapes of Krivbass region is expounded for the aims of sporting tourism. All of basic types of obstacles are rotined, the estimation of level of their complication is given, developed recommendation on the use of mining landscapes in sporting tourism.