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Geography of Tourism in Romania

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The “Carpathic-Danubian-Pontic” geography of Romania is completed and defined by the personality of the Carpathian Mountains, the Danube Delta and Valley and the Black Sea, all these units in a nearly symmetrical combination with the hills and plains, determined by the steplike arrangement of the relief. A situation marked by originality and specificity is the tourist system formed of the Black Sea and the Danube Delta. On the backdrop of an exceptional natural environment human resources consisting of archaeological sites, historical buildings, architectural and art establishments, museums and memorial houses, testimonies of civilization and popular culture through elements of ethnography, the villages and tourist resorts boost the tourist valences of these areas facilitating the outline and development of a wide range of forms of tourism: leisure and health, hunting, rural, cultural, scientific, mountain etc. The tourist infrastructures are elements which support the tourist phenomena in reception areas and include hotels and motels, tourist villas and bungalows, touristic and agro-touristic boarding houses, ships and accommodation space. To these are added roads, railways, airports and waterways to connect important touristic regions and the main types of tourism: rural, mountain, leisure, health, cruise of the Danube, hunting and fishing, etc. The tourist regionalization of the Romanian territory, using as landmarks the value of the tourist potential and tourism infrastructure, outlined 32 regions which involve the capitalization and promotion of the natural and human heritage as an essential resource for tourism development in Romania.

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    Represents the number of touristic accomodation places recorded in the last reception, homologation or classification documents of the establishment of touristic reception with functions of touristic accomodation.

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  1. Department of Geography, Tourism and Territorial Planning, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania

    Alexandru Ilieş, Dorina Camelia Ilieş & Corina Tătar

  2. Faculty of Geography, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Sighetu-Marmaţiei, Romania

    Marin Ilieş

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Ilieş, A., Ilieş, D.C., Tătar, C., Ilieş, M. (2017). Geography of Tourism in Romania. In: Widawski, K., Wyrzykowski, J. (eds) The Geography of Tourism of Central and Eastern European Countries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42205-3_9

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