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

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.