Tourist and recreational clusters as organizational an economic mechanism of control of formation and development of innovative capacity of the North Caucasus Federal District

This article highlights the importance of the strategic approach for managing the tourism and recreation sector at the regional level. This article analyzes a relevant topic not studied before, consisting of considering tourism and the recreational group as an organizational and economic mechanism to control the formation and development of innovative capacities in the Federal District of the North Caucasus. The original methodological approach has been designed for the evaluation of the formation and development of the tourist cluster. It can also be used to evaluate clustering in the sphere of tourism, the efficiency of the tourist cluster, the synergy effect, which is based on an integral method of measurement definition and heterogeneity indices. All these characteristics distinguish this method from the existing ones and allow to evaluate its implementation for the cluster policy in the tourist sphere. The management and economic proposals for the development of tourist groups are represented here: Organization of the group development center, design of the management structure and identification of the stages of development. The model of the North Caucasus Federal District for the tourism group has been designed and covers its specialization and functional directions of the companies defined by identifying a specific variety of the tourism industry. The authors affirm that the cluster policy is the key element to implement the objectives related to the development of the tourism industry in the regions with innovative capacity and economic development of the whole country.