The guide includes brief information that can be useful to tourists when organizing and conducting multi-day amateur trips. It gives practical advice and recommendations on staffing the group, preparing equipment, organizing meals, equipping shelters and overnight stays, orienting on the ground, conducting socially useful work and simple observations of nature, providing first aid. The main attention in the directory is paid to the most massive and popular hiking, water, skiing and mountain travel of the first - third categories of difficulty. The book is intended for novice tourists, as well as the general reader.