Psychological and pedagogical aspects of glamping: tourism as a practice for personal development

One of the situations of the formation and development of personality is associated with tourism, its traditional and innovative types, including glamping. In its immediate, non-delayed relaxation potential, glamping is a very productive and effective practice and technology of tourism, however, the idea of glamping initially involves stimulation and simulation of communication with nature, and as such, with reality. Although the practice of glamping as a whole creates the conditions for the activation and development of a person’s interest in nature and culture, in himself as a subject of nature and culture, its capabilities cannot be overestimated. The ideological orientation of glamping and its consumers towards comfort is rather an attempt to get away from reality, rather than return to it. Therefore, the influence options and types of consequences, possibilities and limitations of glamping in the framework of different programs and orientations can vary significantly. There are attempts to comment on the psychological aspects of glamping as a type of psychotherapeutic and ecological tourism, but they do not go beyond the current findings and advertising and analytical articles on glamping sites and, a bit, social networks. The research method is a theoretical analysis of the psychological and pedagogical aspects of glamping. The study is of an exploratory nature, aimed at identifying the psychological, pedagogical and other problems and possibilities of glamping as a type of ecological and ethnic tourism. Among the existing areas of research, the leading ones are two points of view on glamping: 1) as a successful and promising type of tourism and recreation of a person, containing numerous psychological and pedagogical development potentials and combining previously unconnected (proximity to nature and comfort), 2) as a type of relaxation -recover tourism aimed at avoiding reality and simulating development.