Urban planning preconditions for the development of tourist and recreational potential of the Irkutsk region

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The paper examines the fundamental approaches to the formation of regional tourist and recreational systems within urban planning theory and practice. To explore the urban planning preconditions for the territorial and spatial development of tourism in the Irkutsk region. The objectives include summarizing the theoretical principles of tourism organization in urban planning, identifying systemic factors in the development of regional tourist and recreational systems, and determining the territorial and spatial preconditions for tourism development based on an analysis of the tourist and recreational potentials of the Irkutsk region. The study provides a methodological synthesis of the foundations of tourist and recreational activities within the frameworks of territorial planning and functional-typological models of urban planning analysis, highlighting factors and evaluation indicators for the sustainable development of the spatial structure of tourism as a subsystem of regional settlement. The paper reviews the Russian practice of planning and implementing the concepts of regional tourism systems. The territorial organization of tourism and recreation in the Irkutsk region is analyzed in terms of a landscapetopological context, resource potential, and the established settlement framework. The fundamental approaches to the urban planning organization of the tourist and recreation system of the Irkutsk region are presented in terms of the planning structure of the framework as a hierarchically subordinate system of the main, secondary and auxiliary axes based on transport, historical-cultural and naturalresource contexts. The paper introduces a proposal for organizing extra-framework (zonal) elements of the system, establishing the background for tourism development and nature conservation based on strict nature reserves of federal, regional, and local significance.