The Tourism Clusters: Problems of Identification and Selection of the National Development Model

Abstract

The publication is aimed at substantiating conceptual approaches to identifying tourism clusters in Ukraine, developing a system of indicators to evaluate their performance and proposals as to formation of mechanism for the State cluster policy in the tourism sphere. The study has determined criteria for feasibility of participation in the establishment of a tourism cluster in terms of its potential participants; a system of indicators to provide monitoring, identifying and evaluating the development process, operation of the tourism cluster and its role in enhancing the competitiveness of economy have been proposed; approaches to evaluation of the synergistic effect as result of development of the tourism cluster have been substantiated. Development and testing methodologies to identify tourism clusters, to evaluate their performance and impact on socio-economic development are promising directions for further research. The use of the indicated methodologies will provide a basis for the scope and form of the State support for cluster initiatives, which should be seen as an integral part of the State’s systemic and consistent policy on clustering of the country’s tourism sphere.

Keywords

• the State cluster policy
• identification of tourism clusters
• cluster approach
• national model for managing the development of tourism cluster
• evaluation
• synergistic effect
• tourism clusters