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Volume X | Issue 2
Safety and Security in Tourism. Case Study: Romania
Abstract: For many countries, tourism is considered as having a great economic importance, with quite a large share in the country’s GDP. Hence, the number of foreign tourists is highly important. But worldwide, the threats and dangers are more frequent, and consequently tourists are becoming more aware of the necessity of a safe destination. Foreign tourists are educated in the spirit of touristic safety, and when choosing a particular destination, this aspect is of utmost importance. The image of the country or any touristic destination depends on the quality of the touristic products, which include not only the natural and cultural patrimony or the economic environment, but also the social and political climate, state order and citizens’ safety. A country with a good image for safe tourism can use it as a competitive advantage and attract different segments of the international tourism market. The paper presents some of the safety issues in tourism, focusing on the main aspects of tourism safety in Romania, based on the travel and tourism competitiveness index, with special focus on the third pillar – Safety and Security and the results of an on-line survey with managers and employees in tourism activities.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2011.020.dDates:
Received: 30-12-2010 Accepted: 15-04-2011 Printed: 01-12-2011 Online: 24-08-2011
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- 1 Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, University of Craiova, 13 A.I. Cuza Str. 200515, Craiova, Romania
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Acknowledgements:
The present study was carried out within a Transfer of Innovation project entitled "Training Safety and Security in Tourism", financed by the European Union – Lifelong Learning Programme, including research teams from Latvia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Romania.
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Volume X | Issue 2
Development of Tourism in the Transalpine Area. Premises and Possibilities
Abstract: The paper highlights the premises of the revitalization process of tourism: the significance of the “Transalpine” area, its intersection with routes of intense mobility of the population, the numerous natural and anthropogenic elements and their outstanding tourist value, the high rate of anthropization and insertions in the mountainous area caused by a diverse economy specific to mountainous areas, the tourist accessibility to the area, etc. The extremely favorable natural premises, the anthropogenic, ethnographic and enthno-folkloric potential, as well as the development of the north-south and east-west routes facilitate development of tourism in the Transalpine mountainous area. We have highlighted some distinct features of certain tourist models. Thus, there are two ethno-folkloric areas, two main tourist axes (a transversal one and a longitudinal one) and secondary tourist axes (along the mountains summits) as well as two urban areas (Sebeş in the north and Novaci in the south) which attract and guide the tourist flow. The purpose of this approach is aimed at diminishing the transit tourism, as well as diminishing seasonal tourism through the diversification of tourism. This requires coherent national development strategy integrated in the regional context, inter-county joint projects, the involvement of local authorities and tourist agencies as well as substantial funding.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2011.023.dDates:
Received: 24-12-2010 Accepted: 17-04-2011 Printed: 01-12-2011 Online: 24-08-2011
Affiliations:
- 1 Science Faculty, Ecology and Environment Protection Department, “Lucian Blaga University”, Sibiu, Romania
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Volume X | Issue 2
The Drinking Water Infrastructure in the Oltenia Plain over the Last Decade. Territorial Characteristics and Quantitative Aspects of Production and Consumption
Abstract: The aim of the paper is to analyse the territorial disparities of the drinking water infrastructure in the Oltenia Plain. The study focuses on the following main aspects, specific for the general dynamic of water infrastructure development in the last decade: – the increase in the number of human settlements connected to drinking water network;- quantitative aspects of drinking water production (cubic meters/ day) and different types of consumers (thousand cubic meters).The article intends to highlight the data-base on NUTS V level (TEMPO Online time series, National Institute of Statistics) and to map the main changes registered by the statistical indicators used for the analysis: the number of territorial-administrative units (ATU) connected to the drinking water network, the length of the drinking water infrastructure, the capacity of installations to produce drinking water, the consumption of water by the different types of consumers). In the Oltenia Plain the extension of the number of ATUs connected to the drinking water network was linked with the development of the regional operator in water management, Water Company Oltenia. Despite its weaknesses, this main actor on the water-market of Oltenia will install workstations in two small towns (Băileşti and Calafat), assuring better water services in a relatively large area of the Oltenia Plain. During the last ten years, the water infrastructure became more accessible for the rural settlements and population. The production of drinking water decreased (the capacity of installations to produce drinking water in 2008 was smaller by 1.1% than in 2000) in the last decade, this dynamic being related to the negative evolution of total population (a decrease by 98,736 inhabitants between 1990 and 2009) in the Oltenia Plain, and to decline of agricultural and industrial activities. The two types of consumers (the householders and other consumers = economic actors) differ concerning the rate of the decrease in their consumption: the household type consumption drops only by 17%, compared with 49.2% specific for the other consumers. This dynamic should be explained by the reduction in economic activities, great water consumers (e.g. agriculture and industry).
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2011.028.dDates:
Received: 18-01-2011 Accepted: 05-05-2011 Printed: 01-12-2011 Online: 24-08-2011
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This contribution presents some results under the "Climate Change and Impacts on Water Supply (CC-Waters) part of the South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme".
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Volume X | Issue 2
Orientation of the Voters in the Presidential Elections in Romania 1990-2009
Abstract: After the change of the political regime in 1989, Romania has returned gradually to democracy. This return is illustrated by the electoral process in which the presidential elections play an important role. The first elections after December 1989 represent the exception, the elections being won, detached, in the first round, by the candidate of the party which secured an absolute majority in the legislative (Ion Iliescu, the National Salvation Front), all other elections providing a winner after the second round. The victories were shared between the center-left and the center-right candidates, two decades of witnessing several electoral alternance in power (as in the case of parliamentary elections). It also requires the continuity in the electoral preferences of certain regions (the “Old Kingdom” voting, in general, for the centre-left Social Democrat candidates), while central and western regions and the capital have voted consistently with the right candidates. Between these consistency elements, the Hungarian electorate registers oscillation of voters between the center-left and center-right.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2011.041.dDates:
Received: 02-12-2010 Accepted: 29-06-2011 Printed: 01-12-2011 Online: 24-08-2011
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Volume IX | Issue 9
Characteristics of the Industrialization Process Around the Moment of Collapse of a Centralized Political System. Romania as a Case Study
Abstract: Although a country with a relatively small area, Romania has a variety of natural resources, which in time were favourable prerequisites to the development of processing activities. Most of these resources are not able to provide entirely the requisite, but cover parts of it in certain proportions. The territorial distribution of natural resources and the different cultural influences have fostered the development of certain regions or industrial centres of the country. The dynamics of the industrial exploitation of these centres has grown continuously, reaching a paroxysm in the centralised regime, when some of the resources have been largely exhausted. Rapid and often risky industrialisation, relying mainly on the basis of propaganda and not of economic efficiency has led to a falsely balanced development. New industrial structure, both territorial as well as sectorial has proven ineffective in the very first year of transition from the centralised system to the market economy.
Keywords: Romania, industrialisation process, communist regime collapse, very early transition period
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Printed: 01-11-2010 Online: 21-11-2010
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- 1 Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Researches on the Territorial Dynamics, University of Bucharest
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Acknowledgements:
This work was supported by CNCSIS – UEFISCSU, project number PNII – IDEI code 1948/2008 and project number PNII - IDEI code 196/2007.
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