Socially beneficial tourism programs for young people: The forms and directions of their organization and implementation

The youth tourism development is largely consistent with the global trend of travel conceptualization, expressed in the request for non-standard experience and impressions. Along with this, volunteer tourism is getting popular since it provides opportunities for applying one's own efforts to solving local and global environmental and socio-economic problems. All this makes the socially beneficial component of tourism programs a mechanism for creating a unique tourism offer. At the same time, people in Russia relate ambiguously to introducing socially useful work into certain areas of public life. This necessitates a clear definition of the forms and technologies of the socially beneficial component of tourism programs, the criteria for its usefulness and recreational significance. To do this, the article studied the views on socially beneficial work in tourism and approaches to its study in the scientific literature. The lack of scientific works made it necessary to conduct a deeper search and analysis, which was based on a case study and a synthesis of 50 different examples across the country – tourist educational and career guidance routes and their systems, summer schools and camps, commercial and scientific expeditions, volunteer tourism programs, agro-tourism activities, etc. This study made it possible to formulate the principles, methods, formats, forms, technologies for organizing tourism products with a socially beneficial component in seven key areas for the country: "Industry and Technology", "Culture and Art", "Sports and Adventures", "History and Patriotism”, “Science and Innovation”, “Ecology”, “Rural Tourism”.