Approaches of formation of the altai cluster of international tourism in context of transcontinental transport corridors economic zone of the silk road

Abstract

The question of how to develop international cross-border tourism in the Altai region (tourist destination «Great Altai»), in particular, in the context of national and transcontinental transport corridors is important. The article deals with aspects devoted to the economic and geographical justification of the Altai segment of the Siberian transport infrastructure in the context of international cross-border tourism. The condition that contributes to the development of the destination of the Greater Altai international tourism, in particular, transport infrastructure, is the prospect of connecting to the implementation of the Chinese initiative of the «Silk Road Economic Belt», in particular, the Altai-Xinjiang transport hub. The creation of a modern model of the transport system in south-east of Western Siberia as a tourism infrastructure makes it necessary to analyze the ecological, natural and socio-economic environment on the basis of the developed system of factors and indicators of transport security using SWOT-analysis and geoinformatical-cartographic monitoring.