Creation of Tourist Maps Series as a Type of Regional System Tourism Mapping

ABSTRACT

This paper emphasizes the role of cartographic modelling of tourist routes in the Carpathians in the context of the development of tourist mapping. It describes the distinguished features of Transcarpathian and Eastern Carpathian tourist routes as the objects of mapping. These routes are extremely popular among tourists due to their remarkable recreational and touristic value. Tourist map series fulfil the needs of tourists and also form a relevant and promising practical area of modern geographical mapping. We systematise the principles and describe the methodological basis of cartographic modelling of tourist routes in the Carpathians. We particularly detail the peculiarities of the decoration of tourist maps. Our research contributes to the development of the integral system of spatial, visual, complementary, and comparative information about the region's location, conditions, and features of natural, historical, cultural and socio-economic tourist resources.

KEYWORDS:

• Cartographic modelling
• map series
• tourist routes
• map legend
• regional tourist mapping

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Mariia Onyshchenko

Mariia Onyshchenko is a candidate of geographic sciences, a geographer and a cartographer. She is Map Editor in the Department оf GIS and Digital Cartography of State Scientific and Production Enterprise ‘Kartographiia’. Her research interests include thematic and atlas cartography, issues of cartosemiotics. She is an author of 26 scientific works and more than 50 cartographic products, in particular, a series of maps of communications and informatization in the National Atlas of Ukraine and various thematic maps in educational atlases.