Kulik V. Theoretical basis of the cultural tourism

The thesis is devoted to the analysis of the theoretical basis of the cultural tourism. It was proved the solution of the cultural tourism problems is especially actual at the time of the globalization and ecological crisis. The author appeals to the worldview, humanist, cognitive, existential, communicative and esthetic basis of the tourism as the phenomenon of the common human culture. The theoretical conceptions of the domestic and foreign thinkers, have been analyzed in the thesis. The leading role of the philosophical discourse in the analysis of the cultural tourism phenomenon has been confirmed. The connections between the theoretical basis and the practice of the organization of the cultural projects have been emphasized in the work. The special meaning of the phenomenon under consideration is revealed in the socio-cultural situation of the polycultural and polyconfessional Crimea. There are given the cultural landscape characteristics (on example of the historical-cultural and natural peculiarities of Sevastopol).