Smart Specialization Projects as Tools for Ensuring the Competitiveness of the Resort Region

The article, based on the principles of the ecosystem approach, methods of scientific synthesis and abstraction, substantiates the essence of the resort region as a specific complex ecosystem, the core of which is natural resources and conditions; the features of smart specialization as a strategic coordination of development directions, which takes into account social and economic effects, sustainability and natural balance, social inclusion and innovative cooperation; identifies the priorities of smart specialization of the resort region, the essence and components of the organizational and economic mechanism for their implementation. The role and sources of financing of development projects are considered, the implementation of which will allow obtaining both local and general economic, social and environmental effects, and increasing the level of competitiveness of the resort region.