Design of a network of tourist routes «Aye trails» as a resource for sustainable development of territories

The article discusses the ways of exploring tourist routes and linking them into a single network by involving local organizers of tourist activities. The article provides an overview of the attractions of the village of Aya of Altai Krai and the village of Souzga of the Altai Republic, creates a network of tourist routes connecting these attractions, characterizes the routes by complexity, difficulty, its duration, length and accessibility. The study provides methods for studying existing routes and ways to adapt them to «trails» in the understanding of the existing Standard for designing tourist trails. The characteristics of possible hazards on the route, measures for their prevention and prevention are given. Environmental measures and possible consequences for trail visitors in case of non-compliance with the rules of nature protection are mentioned. The work considers methods of studying routes (historical, expedition, modeling, cartographic and deductive) to systematize the data obtained in research in the form of maps, schematic maps, route landscape profiles; including studies by other authors and researchers on related topics to identify the features and rules of construction of tourist trails. The work also reflects the experience of other regions in modeling and creating tourist trails, routes using different approaches to organizing tourist and recreational activities. This research was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation within the framework of the project 22-27-00245 «Theoretical and methodological foundations of the design of tourist territories in the conditions of socio-economic systems of foothill and mountain territories of Altai».