Hoblyk V. The formation of clusters in the recreation-tourist complex (for example Transcarpathian region)

The theoretical basis of clusters, the peculiarities of their development and the main features and principles of their structure are investigated in this thesis. The experience of creation and functioning of foreign industrial clusters and cluster formations in recreation-tourist complex and their place in the theory of regional development are also ana-lyzed. The factors of the formation of tourist clusters evaluated the degree of their formation in the recreation-tourist complex of the Transcarpathian region and singled out the main problems of functioning and development of tourist clusters in the region are analyzed. On the basis of strategic aims and orienteers we made the outline of the perspec-tive increase of tourist flows, financial-economic indices of functioning of tourist organizations in the Transcarpathian region according to 3 variants: optimistic, moderate and pessimistic on the periods of 2008-2012, 2013-2015 and 2016-2020 within the framework of natural-economic zones.