Tourism Sustainable Development in Romania: South-West Development Region Oltenia

摘要

The aim of the present research paper is to improve the competitiveness of the service sector and in particular the tourism-oriented sector in the South-West Development Region Oltenia and to demonstrate the capacity of sustainable development of the tourism in the above mentioned area. Taking into account the European Agenda 21 the sustainable tourism involves three stages: social sustainment, ecologic sustainment, economic sustainment. All three stages are discussed based on the literature review and based on the realities of the region taken into consideration. A SWOT analysis is realized and some recommendations and conclusions are made in order to synthesize the main debated aspects and proposed action lines.