NATIONAL CUSTOMS AND MENTALITY AS TOURIST ATTRACTIONS IN RUSSIAN REGIONS IN THE SECOND HALF OF XIX – EARLY XX CENTURIES
Journal: Service & Tourism Current Challenges
Year: 2016

With the development of mass tourism in Russian province the process of compiling a list of regional attractions was started. From the beginning, this list comprised not only historical and cultural monuments, natural sites and museums, but also everyday life, mentality, customs and traditions of the nations and ethnic groups that lived in the region. The methods that were used to describe them in provincial guides of the second half of XIX – early XX centuries also had historical and cultural f