TOURIST PRACTICES IN THE MODUS OF THE CULTURAL TURNS

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to analyse the specifics tourist practices and peculiarities of their implementation in the discourse of spatial and virtual cultural turns of the XX - XXI centuries.
The methodology of the research is based on the interdisciplinary approach, which contributes to the
cooperation between the theoretical and applied components of cultural studies. It is very important for the researching the tourist practices in the context of the complicated sociocultural transformations and the world recreational industry. The scientific novelty of the research is an attempt to find out the influence of «cultural turns» on the tourism and the development of various tourist practices.
Conclusions. The spatial turn has allowed to expand the research objects of the phenomenon of the tourism and tourist practices and included a number of such problems as tourist heterotopy, virtual tourist heterotopy. In addition, it has enriched the conceptual-categorical apparatus of their understanding and formed the basis of the complex open heterogeneous and specialized tourism concept-sphere.