Children's and youth tourism
Children's and youth tourism is sport travels, expeditions with the planned goals and other programs of children's recreation. Now youth and children's tourism is not popular: it is difficult to find common language with children, children more and more merge into the virtual world of the Internet and computer games, and having appeared in unusual, and sometimes unforeseen extreme outdoor situations they do not know, how to behave. In this case the trip turns into heavy test. Correctly organised children's recreation will help children to become more independent and more confident, will learn to communicate, to work as a team, to manage difficulties. Tourism with children will allow adults to be proud of the child, and the child will speak with pride: “I could”, “I have made it myself”.
Children's and youth tourism, children's outdoor recreation together with parents is not just one of the most fascinating ways of active entertainment. Tourism helps to strengthen children's health. Children's and youth tourism requires training in work with tourist equipment, terrain orientation, lighting a campfire, putting up a tent in any weather conditions. During training skilled instructors will use the following types of activity: work with scientific and educational literature, work in group, outdoor practical training, one-day and days-long trips.
Youth and children's tourism will learn children of different ages:
- to remember the passed way and to use traffic signs;
- to prepare personal equipment depending on a season;
- to read a topographic map;
- to take bearings in the locality without a map (with and without compass);
- to choose a place for a halt, to equip it with elementary shelters from the rain;
- to cook food in fire;
- to overcome difficult sites of a way (windbreak, stream crossing on a log, on stones);
- to render first medical aid in case of accidents and to dress easy wounds;
- to be attentive and cautious in outdoor conditions.
Tourism, children's recreation, independently organised by children under the guidance of competent instructors is a good way for teenagers to study the world around, to test their strengths.
Since 2011 the program of tourist section has included geocaching. Such children's recreation learns boys and girls to use GPS-navigators.
Fascinating hikes and water trips (routes across Russia and foreign countries) are waiting for children.
Besides, our section offers family tourism (the whole family trips by the routes). Tourism with children is an excellent way to come into contact to a child, to achieve mutual understanding, and just to be together. Tourism with children learns parents to trust responsible work to the child, so that he/she would see and appreciate your trust, your confidence, and it is the important elements of the self-concept forming.
Children's and youth tourism, active children's recreation in the forest is a good way to accustom the child to a healthy living, to bring up courage, good sense, physicality and fortitude; this desire to learn something new, and ability to be a good friend, to appreciate friendship and readiness for mutual assistance in people.
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