Ecotourism - perspective in choice ecological rest

The article is devoted to the most attractive type of tourism for consumers today, both ecological and recreational. On the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic, which has vast little-changed and untouched natural complexes, certain conditions are being formed for the development of these types of tourism. The article describes the experience of developing clusters in the field of nature-saving recreation in the Kyrgyz Republic. The authors in the article characterize the functions of ecological tourism and present various approaches to their classification: recreational, educational, environmental and economic functions of ecological tourism and analyze their specifics.