Development of hunting in Belarus

Abstract

Hunting in the Republic of Belarus has passed a long way. It made first steps in times of the Great Principality of Lithuania. The next steps were taken when the territory of the republic was a part of the Russian Empire and the USSR. Hunting is part of the national economy of the Republic of Belarus now. This fact determines the further possible way of its development. Hunting tourism is one of the most profitable activities. This kind of tourism plays an important role in the improvement of hunting activity efficiency. The aim of hunting tourism is to increase the fi-nancial income from hunters for the provided services. Traditionally foreign tourists are the basis of hunting tourism. But unfortunately there have been many problems in hunting tourism as well as in the whole sys-tem of hunting sector. Inadequate infrastructure of hunting management, insufficient number of game animals in many hunting farms, lack of the required specialists in the republic, lack of advertising and the low level of the personnel training. It all doesn’t allow providing hunting for foreign hunters on a proper level. Here we can add undeveloped system of services provided for tourist etc. The dynamics of the development of hunting tourism gives us the opportunity to suppose that solving this problem in the future w ill make it possible to significantly increase financial income from hunting tourism. There is objective background for dynamic development of hunting efficiency for enhancing its role in the system of sustainable nature resource management and to meet the needs of our econ-omy and people in the production and services proposed in this field.