The presented article analyzes modern ways of qualitative assessment of agricultural territories in the framework of interaction within the boundaries of zones of influence of rural network structure, structural and functional interaction within such phenomenon as rural tourism, taken together and in the context of individual principles and directions of it in the projection of the territories of the reference settlement and the surrounding area.
Keywords: rural network structure, rural agglomeration, rural tourism, ethno-tourism, green (village) tourism, agrotourism, gastronomic tourism