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Modern network science has become a prominent concept, attracting diverse scientific societies to solve a wide spectrum of theoretical and practical problems. Tourism is a sphere wherein the outlines of the network’s scope are distinct. In the study, the network approach was applied in its dual form for both network-like regional tourism data (NLRTD) and network-unlike regional tourism data (NURTD), to explore the tourism destination of Baikal natural territory, Russia, in regard to the challenges of the general sustainability of regional socio-ecological systems. The aim of the study is to elaborate a comprehensive network platform to harmonize such complex and fragile systems as Baikal natural territory. Saturated with networking ideology, the approach spans a huge set of interacting social, technological and ecological elements of the comprehensive system in order to support its functionality and sustainability in general. Particularly, the paper utilizes data from interviews done in Olkhon island (2017–2018), and publicly available textual, spatial and temporal data. NLRTD with pertinent networkization procedures was utilized in transportation schemes, while the NURTD concept implies the networkalization of landscape and land use maps. The platform provides researchers and stakeholders with concentrated information which might be not only effectively processed, but also intelligible, and correctly compared and implemented in contiguous spheres.

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Abstract-In difference to other Arctic countries, tourism development in the Arctic zone of Russia remains understudied.One of the problems that the researchers of the Russian Arctic face is the limited availability of the publicly accessible statistical data. Official statistics often cannot catch up with fast speed changes in the Arctic communities. While several case studies have been conducted with the use of qualitative methods for the analysis of tourism development, the knowledge gap exists in quantitative estimations of the phenomenon. Meanwhile, occupation of the one-third of the Arctic territory, concentration of endemic wildlife species, preserved unique Arctic cultures, and improvements in transportation accessibility, make the area highly attractive for tourists. In order to receive more adjusted information on the development of tourist infrastructure, the authors combined analysis of secondary data taken from the previous studies and Russian Committee of Statistics with the Internet tourist resources available in Russian (tourist sites). Based on analysis of available information, the authors distinguished three zones differing in the prospects and scale of the development of tourism infrastructure: European, Siberian, and Far Eastern. While the Russian Arctic has a lot of specific advantages and disadvantages for the tourism development in comparison with other Arctic countries, the interregional contrasts in economies, natural conditions and transportation access are also highly important for understanding different trajectories of tourism development.

This article deals with the theoretical foundations and conceptual thesis of forming a strategy for innovative development of the machine-building industry enterprises. Various approaches of national and foreign authors to the definition of “innovative development” and “mechanism” are presented and analyzed. To identify the priorities of engineering enterprise innovative development, this research describes the main stages of forming a strategy for innovative development of the machine-building industry enterprises, taking into account regional innovation opportunities, which is based on a subjective and objective assessment of the state of innovative activity of industrial enterprises as well as identifying factors that stimulate and hinder the innovation process.