The Cartographic providing of recreations and tourist activity

Purpose: to rotting the expedient necessity of the wide use of cartographic methods of estimation of recreations territories, that promotes their value for rest and tourism. Material and Methods: theoretical analysis, generalization of information of the special literature. Results: the questions of application of cartography are considered in recreations and sporting tourism. Conclusions: cartographic methods allow to conduct researches in different directions and in combination with descriptive-comparative and mathematical methods it is possible to get valuable material for recreation, tourism and ecology.