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Paradigm of Regional Development: Geographical Aspects of Tourist and Recreational Destinations

Nataliya Petrіvna Boretska
Dr. of Economics, Prof.
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2372-2519
e-mail: nataliya-boretskaya@ukr.net,
Galyna Oleksiivna Krapivina
Candidate of Public Administration, Assoc. Prof.
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9549-2794
e-mail: galina3910@gmail.com,
Azov State Technical University, Dnipro

Citation Format
Boretska, N. P., Krapivina, G. O. (2025). Paradigm of Regional Development: Geographical Aspects of Tourist and Recreational Destinations. Vіsnyk ekonomіchnoі nauky Ukraіny, 1 (48), рр. 56-63. https://doi.org/10.37405/1729-7206.2025.1(48).56-63

Language
 Ukrainian

Resume
Tourism and recreation is a multidisciplinary phenomenon that accumulates natural, socio-cultural, economic and environmental factors, integrating them in a specific geographical space. Geographical research of tourist and recreational destinations is a scientific basis for spatial planning, the formation of tourist clusters, strategic positioning of regions and the implementation of the concept of their sustainable development, which consists in substantiating an integrated approach to clustering and typification of Ukrainian destinations based on geographical aspects and a mix model of cluster analysis, which are supplemented by a model of the life cycle of destinations taking into account external and internal factors of the country’s post-war reconstruction. Rethinking the geographical aspects of destination development for the economic, social and cultural recovery of Ukraine is based on the search for an effective cluster model for the development of the tourism and recreation complex and the principles of public-private partnership. Therefore, the analysis of the geographical typology of destinations in the study is based on taking into account the spatial, natural-geographical and landscape characteristics of the territories. Spatial types of destination organization reflect the degree of compactness, interconnection and concentration of tourism functions within a specific territory. Outside a specific destination, external factors are formed and developed, which are the result of global, national or interregional processes and play the role of catalysts or restrictions that shape the general environment for the functioning of the tourism and recreation space. They set macro conditions: geopolitical stability, investment climate, political will to support private-public partnership, international assistance, etc. The ability of territorial communities, business and authorities to use external incentives; adapt to challenges (in particular post-war ones) and mobilize available resources are internal factors and the driving force of cluster formation. The classification of clustering models of tourist and recreational destinations allows for the formation of a systemic basis for their typification and strategic management of development, and the use of a cluster mix model, which combines hierarchical clustering, k-means algorithms, density clustering methods (DBSCAN), as well as network approaches (Louvain, Girvan–Newman), provides a flexible, comprehensive and adaptive toolkit for analyzing the structural, functional and spatial features of tourist and recreational areas.

Keywords
tourist and recreational destinations, geographical aspects, spatial types of destination organization, clustering models, regional development.

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Received: 26.05.2025
Accepted: 13.06.2025
Published: 19.06.2025