International sport tourism competition–2020: results, problems, solutions

The coronavirus pandemic has made adjustments to the events of world sports tourism 2020. However, two major competitions were held. From 21 to 23 February 2020, Minsk hosted the World Championship (WCH) in hiking, where, in addition to Kazakhstan and the CIS countries, teams from Australia, Argentina, Germany, Italy, and the USA took part. Five Kazakhstani teams participating in the World Cup did not receive prizes. Due to the coronavirus, the World Championship in hiking for children and youth 2020 was postponed several times. And finally, in October, these competitions took place. They included 25 reports of Kazakhstani teams and six of them reached the final. The judging of these competitions was attended by a Kazakhstani expert group of four people, which in the course of its work used a new method of judging developed by specialists from the Research Institute of Tourism of the Turan University. This methodology is based on a scientifically grounded conceptual apparatus that characterizes the content of each of the five criteria for evaluating reports on sports trips presented at international competitions: complexity, novelty, safety, tension, usefulness. The structural and meaningful analysis of these criteria showed that an objective assessment of reports on sports campaigns is possible using the concepts: methodology, criterion, length, first ascent, strategy, tactics, tourism technique.

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