Ethnic tourism as a factor of degeneration and saving of traditional cultural landscape

The author considers concept of ethnic tourism, analyzes correlations between development of ethnic tourism and preservation of traditional population settlement pattern, traditional nature management and traditional cultural landscape. The author represents two ways of the ethnic tourism organization. The first of them is "South-american" that promotes conservation of traditional culture and traditional landscape. The second one is "Asian" that leads to degradation of traditional culture and traditional landscape.