GENESIS OF ETHNOCULTURAL TOURISM HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

 The article reveals the meaning of the concept of ethnocultural tourism. The genesis of ethno-cultural tourism in Central Asia is considered from the standpoint of a historical and philosophical retrospective. Although the emergence of ethnocultural tourism is often associated with the era of the Great Geographical Discoveries, however, we can say that the beginning of tourism was put in the ancient centuries and in the early Middle Ages. The role of embassies left by ambassadors of notes, chronicles of medieval authors in the study of the history of ethnocultural tourism is emphasized.