Environmental tourism potential of the Arctic regions of Russia

¹ Candidate of Economic Sciences, Senior Researcher, V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997, Moscow, Russian Federation
² Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, North-west Institute of Management RANEPA, 199178, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

^* Corresponding author: dorofeevalucy@gmail.com

Abstract

Tourism is an important field for international cooperation. The Arctic zone has a potential for the tourism activities development, the question remains on what policy principles should forming this industry be carried out. The goal of the work is to determine the advantages of the Arctic territories as a network cluster that takes into account modern security requirements and creates conditions for the development of territories based on tourist attractions. The work considers the best practices in the field of tourism clusters development in the world, Russian legislation aimed at activating the process of cluster formation in the field of tourism, key factors that determine the unique characteristics of the tourism sector of the Arctic. The main methods used were analytical generalization, comparative analysis, retrospective analysis of the legislative framework in the tourism sector of Russia. As a result, stating certain successes in the field of tourism development in the Arctic, the authors note the need for the development of the environment to attract the local population to forming cultural code of territory and note the key areas of digitalization that could contribute to improving the processes of tourist cluster formation in the Arctic territories.