Tourism as a factor in the development of cultural space in Republic of Buryatia
The article discusses the concept of tourism as a social and cultural phenomenon in the cultural space of the region. One of the promising regions in the field of tourism development is the Republic of Buryatia. Tourism in the country has its own specifics in connection with the multi-ethnic features of the region. By the beginning of the XXI century global and local processes, the growth of cultural diversity in society caused a need to examine the specificity of the cultural space of the regions for their current and future form, as well as the solution of urgent problems and identify prospects for the development of tourism. The cultural space of the Republic of Buryatia is a holistic systemic phenomenon, which expresses the essence of the cultural multi-ethnic region. Cultural space evolved over several centuries, its specificity was determined by natural conditions, historical uniqueness of social, ethnic and cultural, religious and faith-based features, sustainable cultural, political and economic development. Buryatia has a special interest to the phenomenon of tourism, which is due to two interrelated processes: on the one hand, the increasing globalization and informatization of modern society, on the other - the development of localization processes and the formation of cultural diversity.