Background origin and stages of publications about travels

In modern journalism tourist themes well represented in all forms of mass media - newspapers, magazines, television broadcasts, Internet - resources. The rise in popularity of tourist publications subjects due to the significant interest of the audience to travel, to gain new knowledge about the history and traditions of the countries and peoples, monuments of nature and architecture around the world. There are considered emergence process and development process of prints about travels and stages of their becoming in the article, definitions of literary genre «travels» listed, analysis of activities of the classics of Russian literature and journalism, who created travel notes made. The first stage of becoming in travel press in Russia was in 19 century, when first magazines about travels and geography appeared: «Latest travel magazine», «News of Russian Geographical Society», «Around the world», «World traveler», «Russian tourist» and etc. The second stage, which was in the first third of 20 century and pre-war years, is interesting that part of travel and sport press is up just over 1 % of periodicals, and at the same time they were not only agitators and educators of travels, but agitators and educators of healthy lifestyle. The third stage (1946-1990 years) is time of ideological and thematic development of the tourism press. The main goal of mostly all press is promotion of sport, sport travel, physical culture, and special role in here plays travel media. After 1990 the fourth stage starts, which names travel journalism. Tourism press in this period experiencing transformation, commercialization, differentiation, globalization and, as a result, typological update the entire class. The beginning of journalism travel or travel-journalism was supposed to development and transformation of the literary genre of «journey», which laid the foundations for a new journalistic direction.Over time, the functions of travel notes and sketches are expanding, and they are not only instruments of transmission of geographical knowledge, but also the culture of the countries and popularizers of travel destinations and pilgrimages to reflect local traditions and ethnographic realities. The growing interest in travel and tourism, improving the solvency of the citizens, expanding the geography of tourist routes and trends, technological advances contribute to the development not only of publications on this topic, but also the tourist internet resources. Tourist media can and should play an important, if not dominant role in the development of domestic tourism. It is with this and related new qualitative step in the operation and development of domestic tourism journalism, which, in turn, is an important turning state policy towards the promotion of the cultural heritage of the country, the formation of a highly patriotic and civil society, knowing the national history, multinational culture, cultural historical traditions, natural and geographical features and potential of the Russian regions.