Legal issues of the development of resorts and medical and recreational areas regulation

Abstract

The paper discusses the problems of legal regulation of development of resorts and medical and recreational areas in the Russian Federation and suggests ways to further improve legislation in this sphere. The relevance of the topic is due to the prevailing unsystematic development of the territories of most resorts in Russia, which leads to an increase in anthropogenic pressure on resort ecosystems, degradation of natural medicinal resources, deterioration of the ecological and sanitary-epidemiological condition of the territories of resorts and health-improving areas. The author shows the importance and features of the organization of development of resorts and medical and recreational areas to ensure their sustainable development, analyzes the existing urban planning legislation in the part relating to the construction of resorts, reveals problems of regulation and implementation of urban planning activities in the resorts. The priority role of territorial planning in the regulation of reasonable development of resorts is justified taking into account the peculiarities of their functioning and further development.