Abstract:
The article discusses the common peculiarities, problems and perspectives of the tourism sector in
the countries with developing economy using as a basis the growing socioeconomic significance and
the ecological problems connected with it. The problem of relevance of ecological orientation for
long-term strategic development in tourism sector has been asserted, the whole fascination of
ecotourism has been revealed in terms of the balanced progress of the country’s economy and the
provident use of non-renewable natural resources. With the proposed methodology a hierarchical
variant of inclusive estimation of the potentials of ecotourism in the process of the foundation and
extension of tourism centers is represented.
The analyzed problem is more explicit in the countries of developing economy with the limited
resource potentials as the Republic of Armenia is regarded. The article examines the peculiarities of
development, the tendencies and perspectives of the tourism sector in the Republic of Armenia, the
county’s bioclimatic, socioeconomic and historical features. Matching the acquired information, the
possibilities of the development of ecotourism have been estimated in correspondence with the
proposed methodology and taking into consideration the perspective benefit of all the partners of
market relations, the sustainable development of economy, along with the priority of the
maintenance of non-renewable resources.
