Kazakhstan
Quarry Life Award 2016

CONCEPT OF TURGEN TOURIST RECREATIONAL LANDSCAPE PARK CREATION

Landscape management
Urban ecology

The concept of tourist recreational area (landscape park) in Almaty Oblast was devised with a view to implement the action plan ensuring sustainable performance of Almaty Oblast. The tourist recreational landscape park is a part of the Almaty Oblast territory intended for location and operation of facilities related to tourist and mass leisure, health resorts as well as other facilities for recreational and health care purposes, and recreational park infrastructure. The park has absolute environmental priorities and focused on environment and local natural resource maintaining and preservation, human ecology and active ageing, reproduction and preservation of forest lands, soil and biological diversity of species, considerable reduction of emission into atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other harmful substances. The concept represents an ideology of the background, resource provision, methodological approach at establishment of tourist recreational areas as one of the innovation elements of tourist industry development as well as defines the guidelines of state backing of tourism industry entities operating in the tourist recreational zones.