V rabote osveshcheny protsessy zarozhdeniya i stanovleniya agrarnogo i ekologicheskogo turizma v SShA. Rassmatrivaetsya istoricheskaya i kul"turnaya obstanovka, v ramkakh kotoroy, proiskhodili dannye protsessy. Takzhe dayetsya opisanie sovremennogo polozheniya del v nazvannykh otraslyakh turizma, na primere deystvuyushchikh rancho, kompaniy, obshchestvennykh ob"edineniy i ekologicheskikh trop. Aktual"nost" dannoy raboty zaklyuchaetsya v tom, chto segodnya v Belarusi nablyudaetsya neobkhodimost" razvitiya vnutrennego turizma, a takie napravleniya kak agro- i ekoturizm yavlyayutsya naibolee perspektivnymi. Ispol"zovanie amerikanskogo opyta gostevykh rancho i ekologicheskikh trop v turisticheskoy sfere dayet bogatye perspektivy k razvitiyu podobnykh praktik i v Respublike Belarus". Tsel" raboty - izuchenie osobennostey formirovaniya i razvitiya sel"skogo i ekologicheskogo turizma v SShA, a takzhe demonstratsiya putey primeneniya amerikanskogo opyta v turisticheskoy sfere RB.