Cultural attractions have become particularly important and play an important role in tourism at all levels. They are also increasingly being placed at the centre of urban and rural development and constitute an important aspect of social and cultural lives of the residents. Cultural tourism is...

Cultural tourism is currently one of the main driving forces of the tourist phenomena, accounting for a significant part of the world’s tourist flows. Cultural tourism may take many forms, according to the motivation behind tourists’ impetus to travel to a certain destination. Cultural...

Tourism is an industry of the future, having the potential to provide significant revenues, and an industry of "beauty", because it will protect, preserve and contribute to arranging the environment affected by other human activities. This is why it is very important to know the evolution of...

Romania's integration in the European Union implies, apart the complex process of policy transfer, the learning of new modes to make policies characteristic to a multi-level governance and partnership culture. Of the different levels of governance of the European model, the regional level...

The strategy, both for the Romanian local communities and for the entire public sector, ensures the permanent monitoring of the resources-transformation process, public services obtained mechanism, both on short term through the plans of measures adopted and also on long term. No matter the way...

This paper intends to answer mainly the questions: What are the consequences of the taxation base increase? What forms does the taxation base have? What can local authorities do in order to make certain areas attractive? Which are the specific players involved in the local economic development?...

The paper intends to analyse a model of decentralization specific to Continental Europe, which shows that a transfer of responsibility to the local authorities has not always been appropriately followed by a transfer of resource, the consequence being the appearance of budgetary imbalances at...

The paper’s objective is to present the affordability and the fiscal pressure, essential indicators, in our opinion, in capitalising every local community’s fiscal policies, specific to the natural person and legal person tax payers. Therefore, these indicators must be considered when...

The paper intends to emphasise the importance of budget resources forecasting for long periods of time, within the financial management. An as accurate as possible forecasting of the volume of financial resources will represent the basis for the future projections of the expenditure of local...

The paper intends to present the manner in which the public services diagnosis is made, taking into consideration the complexity of its making. The making of the public services’ diagnosis is determined on one hand by the number and diversity of public services ensured by the local...