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Tourism is one of the most Important ways influencing social and economic land use development. Tourism industry development has multiplicative effect and helps to advance different business areas, such as tourism companies' services, hospitality facilities, transportation, trading and catering, souvenir manufacturing, folk craft and art production, agriculture, building and construction Thereby tourism development is very important for society and government in total as well as for regional and municipal units in particular Modern Russian reality makes tourism industry development one of the most important government social and economic goals. Russian Federation has enormous resources to advance the tourism sphere Most territories could become recreation and tourism areas. Flowever, tourism development in Russia is currently being restrained by different social and economical problems such as tourism infrastructure underdevelopment, tourism services quality and prices incompatibility, lack of science-based strategy of creating positive country image, local budgets deficit, low level of tourism services differentiation, lack of professionals involved in tourism industry According to the authors, these problems solution lays in using cluster approach in tourism. Introduction of such modern method as tourism cluster makes it possible to develop every type of tourism, provide differentiated services and solve some of social and economic problems currently existing on some of Russian terntories.
Keywords: tourism; tourist attraction; management; tourist services; tounst infrastructure; tourist cluster
JEL Classification: Z1; Z3.
Introduction
By the beginning of the XXI century tourism took leading position in social and economical activities of almost every country, and tourist industry became an important part of social life and consumption pattern for most societies.
According to UNWTO. every tenth employee is involved in tourist industry - more than 250 million people worldwide. Tourist industry share in overall investment is 7%, 11% share in consumer spending worldwide, one third of world services sold and 5% of all tax revenues. Money invested in tourism refund faster than those invested in any other industry. Tourism is a way to initiate multiplication effect that helps other branches of countries' industry develop. Tourism became a source of significant income increase and national economy growth for lots of countries. Highly developed countries such as Switzerland. France and Austria gained most of their welfare out of tourism income.
International Tourism became an important source of...