TRADITION AND ADAPTABILITY – FACTORS OF RESISTANCE AND REBIRTH OF TOURISM IN ROMANIA IN THE CONDITIONS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

摘要

Even from Roman times, the Romanian space has been an example of bathing and leisure arrangement and capitalization of the thermal waters, similar to those of Italy, Gallia, Germany and Pannonia. The modern period was characterized by a gradual tourism capitalization of the hydromineral and thermal resources, of the potential of the Carpathian Mountains, the Black Sea, the Danube Delta, as well as the urban and rural cultural landscapes, at the same level as other European countries famous for their tourism. These were included in the domestic and international tourism system, due to tourism planning which increased the number of accommodation places, eventually reaching almost 500,000 places (beds). The temporarily unfavorable social, economic and political conditions such as the two World Wars, the communist centralized political-economic regime and the period of transition towards the market economy, have determined moments of stagnation and regress, subsequently overrun by legislative, economic and fiscal politics, which managed and will manage to align the Romanian tourism to the European standards.