The article analyzes the essence and significance of recreational and tourist activities as a component of recreational and tourist cycles. Thus, recreation and tourism can be considered as a separate large block of nature -recreational and tourist nature management (RTP), which allows not only each person to use a favorable resource base for recreation, but also leads to changes in this area and the formation, as a result, multilevel ecological situations. The authors argue that a scientifically sound system of recreational and tourist resources is being formed, which helps tourists and vacationers to be aware of the geographical locationof certain objects of recreation and contemplation.