Dolhova K. Geospatial organization of the cluster of resort and health-improving children’s tourism of Ukraine

The thesis considers the essence of children's tourism as a social phenomenon, defines the place of the cluster of resort and health-improving children’s tourism (RHICT) in the functional structure of the children's tourism complex of Ukraine. It improves the definition of concepts of "complex of children's tourism", "sub-complex of children's tourism", "cluster of resort and health-improving children's tourism", "sub-cluster of resort and health-improving children's tourism", "territorial cluster of resort and health-improving children's tourism". Besides, it determines the method of socio-geographical research on the cluster of RHICT, and its geospatial organization. In particular, genesis-historical view on children’s tourism, PESTEE-, cluster, factor analysis, calculation of integral indexes of capacity and efficiency of children’s camps, cartographic and comparative-geographical methods prompt consideration of its cluster features