Enhancing еhe Potential of Pilgrimage Tourism: Innovative and Cluster Approaches and Development Forecasts

The article analyses the role of innovations, resource-efficient technologies and the effective use of human capital in enhancing the potential of pilgrimage tourism. Using global practice as an example, it substantiates the impact of tourism on economic and social sustainability. In the context of Uzbekistan, the necessity of tourism development concepts, priority directions for expanding domestic tourism, and innovative forms of pilgrimage tourism, the cluster approach and methodological solutions are highlighted.