eng Science and Education Publishing International Journal of Econometrics and Financial Management 2014-08-25 2 4 163 167 10.12691/ijefm-2-4-8 IJEFM2014248 article Rubtsova Natalia Vladimirovna runatasha21@yandex.ru 1 Department of Management and Service, Baikal State University of Economics and Law, Irkutsk, Russia The purpose of this study was to assess the availability of tourism clusters in the regions of Pribaikal, namely the Irkutsk region and the Republic of Buryatia, using a variety of cluster identification methods. The findings suggest that the characteristics of tourism clusters are found in the Republic of Buryatia. However, in Irkutsk region they are not available, although the two regions are the object of a number of national and regional development programs of tourism clusters. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ijefm/2/4/8/ijefm-2-4-8.pdf tourism cluster methods of cluster identification regions of Pribaikal