Thematic Session 9

Thematic Session 9: Developing Ecotourism in the Caucasus

Place: Building I, Four I, Room 1114, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi

Scheduled: Wednesday 5 July 2023; 11:15 – 13:00

CO-CHAIRS:

Natalia Bakhtadze Engländer, Chair of the Board Georgian Ecotourism Association

PRESENTERS:

Resime Aliguliyeva

Ecotourism opportunities in the northeastern Greater Caucasus part of Azerbaijan

Elena Belonovskaya, Arkadiy Tishkov

Perspectives of ecological tourism development on the protected areas of the Russian Caucasus

Alexandra Andreeva, Marina Petrushina

Landscape justification for the development of ecological tourism in the protected areas of the North-West Caucasus

Jalil Noroozi

Flora and vegetation types of Alborz mountain range (N Iran) and their potential for ecotourism

Andrey Medvedev, Natalia Telnova, Bashir Kuramagomedov, Natalia Alekseenko

Mapping of arbitrary hiking trails and roads based on ultrahigh resolution remote sensing data for recreational pressure assessment