DESIGN OF ECOLOGICAL TRAILS IN NATURAL PARKS (THE "ERGAKI" NATURAL PARK CASE, WEST SAYAN MOUNTAINS)
The article discusses one of the problems of natural parks activity as a relatively new form of protected areas in Russia. Nature Park "Ergaki", located within the Western Sayan, is an example to consider the educational tourism development. To illustrate the project, we use ecotrail "Nature of the Sayan - around us." It is emphasized that the main rules of landscape planning are the scientific basis for methodological approaches to organize educational tourism in natural park.