Factors of functioning and development of tourist clusters at regional level

Under the condition of tough competition, lack of proper support for tourist industry at the state level, and necessity for development and bringing this sector to a new level, which consists in capability for offering a consumer a high-quality and competitive product, the necessity for search for effective solutions is obvious. One of the perspective and effective means for solving the problems of tourist sphere at present is formation and development of tourist clusters. The article studies existing approaches to determination of tourist cluster, analyzes the current state of internal tourism, and views factors which hinder the creation of competitive product and factors which stipulate the increase of effectiveness of functioning of tourist clusters at regional level.peer-reviewe

The Doha Talks and the Bargaining Surplus in Agriculture

The Doha Round has been slow to achieve a reduction in the level of agricultural protection. This remains the case notwithstanding the substantial economic benefits that would arise from a more liberal agricultural trading regime. We provide one explanation for this slowness using a simple bargaining model. We demonstrate that the bargaining countries received a substantial fiscal gain from reducing government expenditures in the run-up to the Uruguay Round. This fiscal pressure was sufficient to block rent seekers who wanted farm payments to continue. Since the Uruguay Round these fiscal constraints have been reduced and the same pressure to reach a bargain and control rent-seeking behaviour is not present in the Doha Round.Doha Round, rent seeking, bargaining, International Relations/Trade,

Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Dam-Break Wave on a Single Building Situated Downstream

Dam-break flow may cause severe damages on land and population locateddownstream due to flush flooding. In addition to the complexity inherent in dam break flow,existence of buildings changes the rapidly varying flow pattern downstream making theproblem more complex. The way the buildings are oriented and clustered has a great influenceon water depths and velocities of the dam-break flow. To understand the phenomena better, inthis study, the flow around a single building located vertically and excentred with respect tothe main flow direction are investigated experimentally and numerically. The wavepropagation and its interaction with the building was observed using high speed camera andobtained results were compared with FLOW-3D numerical model which uses 3D RANSequations utilizing k - turbulence model. The results were in good agreement