Features and signs of modern tourist clusters

Abstract

One of the promising areas of development of the tourism industry are the creation of tourism
clusters. This, in turn, actualizes the issues of the theoretical description of the characteristics and signs of
identification of tourist clusters. In this article, authors, using methods of comparative analysis, consider existing
approaches to the definition of a tourist cluster, describe modern signs of tourist clusters and ways to identify
them. The cluster were revealed by applying the methodology of the categorical-symbolic approach and by the
features of the interconnection of the internal components.
The scientific article puts forward a number of axioms that relate to the modern features of the functioning
of tourist clusters. The results of the study show that the proposed provisions are reliable and can be used as
methods of identifying a tourist cluster. The conclusions which were presented by the authors that the signs that
allow identifying a tourist cluster are changeable and depend on the specifics of the development of the external
environment, each cluster has a unique socio-cultural environment, the peculiarity of cluster development
depends on the characteristics of the resources used available in a certain geographical space. In the final part of
the article these aspects allowed to propose the author's definition of the concept of "tourist cluster".