The problems of environmental damage, economic unsustainability and social dislocation caused by rapid and extensive places for recreation growth might suggest that the key to greater sustainability lies in setting limits to urbanization and changing the rules in architecture and planning for...

People’s concern on getting value to the therapeutic properties of natural health factors to heal or only cure illneses or pains is quite old. Homer is considered to be the first who praised the qualities of bathing in treating different kinds of illneses and Hipocrates (460-370 B.C.), was the...

The first part of the paper presents the past and present of the religious tourism in the world and in Romania and its implications on traveling. The second part describes the regions with religious tourism potential in Romania and the activities that could enhance and help the development of...

In the functional market economy, due to the intense competition, the service suppliers are forced to consider, as far as utility and the tariff of the services are concerned, the needs, requests and expectations of the consumers. This fact is imposed with necessity because the consumers are...

A visit to Rome can reveal not only the uniqueness and the grandeur of the touristic objectives in the capital of Italy, like other cities along the way, but also the way they are emphasized. Rome, Florence, Venice, Wien... each of them represents a chapter in the history of art and not only....

Nowadays, tourism is considered as one of the most dynamic economic field, with a continuous oscillatory evolution, being defined as the most profitable industry at the end of the 20th century. John Naisbitt identifies tourism, in his famous book “Megatendencies”, as the industry with the...

The local rural communities of Romania have been affected by the evolution of the history in the last decades. To these there have been added the years of centralised economy and afterwards the transition towards the market economy. All of these have put the inhabitants of the villages between...

Romanian Abstract: Industria turismului are o contribuţie importantă în PIB-ul unei ţări, atât prin consumul intern de servicii turistice, cât şi prin încasările din turismul internaţional. Conform datelor furnizate de Institutul Naţional de Statistică, circulaţia turistică...