Town-Planning Approaches to Tourism Sector Development on Redevelopment Areas in Caucasian Mineral Waters Agglomeration

Purpose: The aim is to study town-planning approaches to tourism sector development on redevelopment areas in Caucasian Mineral Waters agglomeration after major natural, man-made disasters and other destructive factors. Over more than two hundred years of the balneal resort history, a cluster initially formed as part of a polycentric agglomeration, a significant theoretical and practical basis of town-planning measures and tools has been developed. It can be effectively applied to the development of new territorial plans for the territory redevelopment. The paper also presents the comparative and historical analyses of the development of European mineral water resorts.
Methodology: The study of geographical and natural climatic conditions and resources of the Caucasian Mineral Waters region, historical materials, urban development materials, analytical and UNESCO documents. Geographical analysis, historical research methods such as chronological and diachronic, comparative analysis and comparison methods, and town-planning analysis, comparative analysis of the foreign experience.
Research findings: Comprehensive consideration of town-planning aspects of the Caucasian Mineral Waters resort and health tourism cluster as part of a polycentric agglomeration to develop a unified approach to preparing recommendations for the comprehensive territory redevelopment.

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