CULTURAL TOURISM AS A SECTOR OF SOCIO-CULTURAL PRACTICES AND HABITAT
The article presents the connection of cultural tourism, socio-cultural practices, as well as the environment. The methodological basis consideration of cultural tourism is «environmental» view of culture.its selection was possible on the basis of the comparative characteristics of such approaches in the understanding of culture as the «industry», «academic», «artistic», «ethnographic». The concept of cultural tourism in the environmental sense was based on the interests of different types of tourists: a historical, geographical, and artistic approaches such as «technical» and «conceptual», which is best correlated with environmental process culture. In this regard, cultural tourism stands to the identification and development of cultural values and benefits.