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Through the fact that capitalize the resources and local products, and combines two activities, agriculture as main activity and the tourism as a complementary activity, the profitability of agrotourism activity is high, being a chance of alternative incomes for rural areas, especially for those from the mountain area. Practicing agrotourism ensures the sustainability of the rural area due to the fact that it follows the encouraging of the practice of traditional activities in rural communities, stopping land abandonment and the chaotic development of tourist activities, in deep disagreement with the peculiarities of the rural environment. Agrotourism promotes the idea of combining economic interests, community development, and nature conservation. Rural entrepreneurs can capitalize on the tourist potential of an area and supplement farm incomes by adding a modest income from tourism activities. The present scientific paper is an attempt to review the structure of the agrotourist activity and product and of the role and benefits of agrotourism in supporting the development of the rural environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The national program "milk and croissant" addresses both pre-school and elementary and secondary school pupils, through each pupil offers a milk or dairy product in quantities of 200 ml and bakery products in packages of 80 g/unit. Through this scientific approach, we intend to determine how milk and dairy products influence this program, finding that the majority of pupils (71.25%) surveyed said the program did not influence their behavior on the frequency with which they consume milk or dairy products, and a small percentage (28.75%) said that habits regarding the frequency with which they consume milk or dairy products were influenced, even if these products are distributed to them daily free of charge. The great majority of respondents, meaning 91.25% said they are consumers of milk and dairy products, of which 84 pupils prefer milk with a percent of 3.5% fat content, 114 pupils said they consume milk with a percent of 1.5% fat content of and only 21 of them nominate the milk with 0.1% fat content as being preferred. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The village and the agrotourist area presents itself as an area of real attraction, where are meat all the elements specific to the local development. The agrotourist activity and the economic and social development of rural area are in a relationship of correspondence and reciprocity. So, the intensification of tourism activity is the result of the general development of the rural areas, development which is also determined at his term by the development of tourism. The potential of rural areas represents an advantage with wide implications, determined by the environment in which it unfolds the current economic and social life. The tourist potential of the area or tourist site can be defined as the "all natural, culturalhistorical, economic and social components, scientifically, quantitatively and qualitatively recognized and proven by practice and which presents opportunities for tourist capitalization and give certain functionality for tourism ". The Romanian village, whether we speak about the traditional one or about the one with tourist vocation, is a special tourist product of the national tourist market and especially of the international one. Also, the Romanian village with tourist valences can represents a way of identifying our country as a tourist destination with a large tourist offer. The mountain area of Arad County comprises the eastern half of the studied area and is remarked by the presence of two mountain massifs: the Codru-Moma Mountains and the Zarand Mountains. In the present paper it is tried to highlight the specific characteristics of the mountainous rural area with agrotouristic vocation, of Arad County. The attractiveness of the rural area for practicing agrotourism was the basis for the organization and development of tourism products and an infrastructure suitable for rural tourism. The natural and anthropic resources of the picturesque mountain areas, the flora and fauna variety, the mineral and thermal water springs, the hunting and rich hunting grounds, as well as the elements of architecture, folk art and folklore offer a great opportunity for practicing rural tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Modern society has no time for rituals or rhythms; the modern man serves his food at fast at fast-food near the workplace, surrounded, but not together, with his colleagues. Both the Romanian of the big urban agglomerations, as well as of the one from the rural space, has no time for even one of the three tables; he uses products with beautifully colored and encoded labels, because they do not know how else they could talk about: emulsifiers, stabilizers, a bunch of E-s, a whole bunch of acids mentioned on the packaging label. Taking the example of France, Germany or the Netherlands, it becomes obvious the fact that Europe is enjoying its traditional products and is turning to products obtained in farm, bought from the farm and with farm labels. Europe is looking for its tradition: Yes! The countries of the European Union return to tradition naturally, unforced, on the economic path ... and nothing seems to stand in their way. We do not know in what measure their traditional product is the fruit of a policy or politics is the fruit of this fact; it is certain that the fundamental objectives expressed by the Common Agricultural Policy are: to increase agricultural productivity and, implicitly, agrotourism; ensuring an acceptable living standard for the farmer; stabilizing markets; guaranteeing subsidies for agricultural products, ensuring reasonable food prices for consumers. The promotion and cultivation of the Romanian product is a problem with the uncertain solution. The causes of uncertainty are multiple. We can say that the state does not help us, there are no associations of farmers, we can say that the product is not required, we can say anything ... few of us will have the power to say that our minds do not help us, or we are a people lacking of the strategy, tenacity in promoting its own values, or maybe a little snob and who, for a commission, is willing to give up the native product. What we completely neglect, ignore is that, together with this product we renounce complete to the village and the peasant, the villager or the agricultural entrepreneur in which we put our hopes deeper than in religion or in the army. The fact that we go so hard is a feature that has old, deep, even painful roots. Thus, the study aims to identify the importance of the traditional Romanian product in the development and promotion of local agrotourism. There have been some goals, the decision-making issue and, implicitly, its transposition into a research problem. As objectives, it was wanted to identify the factors influencing the decision to promote and develop agrotourism services through the traditional Romanian product. The sample chosen was representative, consisting of a significant number of people, of different ages and of different occupations. All the conclusions drawn from the study were made following the processing of the answers received after the application of the questionnaires, processed in the SPSS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rural tourism has many development opportunities, mainly in the areas that still preserve customs, traditions, craft and handicraft. Ideal for creating a tourist offer competitive on international market would be the possibility of developing some tourist packages with local specific, to this purpose all the natural elements, plus the traditions and folklore, creates clear possibilities for realizing a rural tourism, at high international standards, allowing attracting tourists. In many countries operate successful a model of sustainable life, in witch are kept all standards of a civilized standard of living, but witch is obtained based on some technologies and green commercial, ecological, activities so-called ecovillage. The localities in which runs rural tourism will become spaces where they will assemble all the elements of local sustainable development. The benefits of creating such a village can be multiple. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the fact that the village, included in tourist circuit, can be - simultaneously - a component of many types of tourist products, with multiple costs, but also benefits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Food security has been and continues to be a current topic given the fact that, it stands at the base of all issues related of human existence. In this respect it is necessary to analyze the idea of food security on the two levels closely correlated, meaning the qualitative level and quantitative level. Quantitative aspect aimed the insurance of food necessary to meet the physiological needs of the population from the bottom of Maslow pyramid and converging towards meeting other needs found on top of the pyramid steps. The second aspect, the qualitative one, aimed the qualitative structure of the products to ensure a healthy diet. To solve problems related to food security are necessary food sustainable policies that follow linking food consumption capacity of the population to the level of supply with quality food of this. The policies adopted will have to manage in a proper manner issues such as: food availability and ensuring a degree of stability of supply with quality agricultural products, increasing the population incomes and practice of tariffs to reflect price-quality report and allowing population access to food, all this having major implications in terms of providing daily needs of food resulted in daily food basket. Food security issues what shape at global level represents also problems of our country with important implications for ensuring the adequate food supplies of the population to a high quality. In this respect, aspects aimed global warming, desertification and degradation of agricultural land on relatively extensive areas, the financial and economic crisis from recent years, the lack of independence of national food policy, the regional disparities regarding the economic development, the existence of less-favored areas, show a series of implications starting from those concerning food security of Romania, generating even indirect implications, in terms of policies aimed food trade and transfer of tasks from poor areas through the high potential ones and have a surplus of food resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For a long time, agriculture has played an essential role in the development of rural areas, but agricultural activities are no longer the only option for the development of these areas, "agriculture is no longer the vertebral column of rural economies." For the next period attention should be directed to: the development of rural villages and farms; support for processing agricultural products; relocating young people to rural areas; Development of activities in the tourism sector; Creating SMEs in rural areas. Rural settlements that offer unique products on the market are less numerous, and in creating a valuable rural tourist product, preserving a brand image of tourist activity requires an optimum report between the nature of the offer, the quality of the services and the perceived price. The rural area offers a lot of profitable tourist features: boarding houses, camps and accommodation in rural households can support a wide range of activities such as pedestrian walks, cultural tourism, river tourism, fishing, hunting, equitation, in this context, the possibility of creating a valuable tourist product is not only possible but also necessary. Concentrated on the important factors of the purchase decision under the conditions of the tourist market, we find that it is created a profitable market niche is created for rural tourism products, especially for those with bio character/nature. The purpose of this paper is to identify the elements of the tourist product, to highlight why the offer of the rural tourism product is special, to come up with a possible action plan, related to the rural tourism field and necessary directions that need to be targeted for capitalizing the potential of rural area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In most part, the tourist sites are now constituted, in entities somewhat broken by traditional traditions and occupations, by the local specifics, which can only have negative effects both for the present and especially for the future. Keeping a rural world, with everything that is significant in economic, social, cultural, aspect involves the initiation and development of this form of tourism. In parallel with the agrotourism development process, have amplified the elements of infrastructure, cultural elements, as well as those related to traditional occupations (including artisans) that have become attractions factors in rural area. Generally, tourism can participate in preserving the viability and stability of rural localities, where the phenomenon of depopulation manifests itself obvious by leaving young people to urban areas and abandoning old households and lands. The meeting between rural area, a particularly fragile environment with the dynamism imposed by the tourist phenomenon rise the problem of risks appearance generated by the reorganization. However, we can say that agrotourism must become an alternative to the problems of agriculture and of the rural area. In this context, we can consider that the development of agrotourism, connected with the evolution of agriculture, can be a solution, which can have a very important contribution to the development of the rural, not only in financial terms but also in social terms. Exploiting the resources of localities and rural areas through agrotourism involves the implementation of some individual measures with various benefits, aspects that we intend to detail in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The tourism of the last 60 years has been constantly expanding and diversifying, becoming one of the most dynamic and largest economic sectors globally speaking. According to data provided by the National Institute of Statistics (INS), between May and August 2016 in Romania, 3.8 million Romanians and 1 million foreigners have spent their holidays, twice as many as 6 years ago. Regarding foreign tourists who visited our country during the summer, most of them, more than half a million come from Germany. The following places include tourists from Italy, Israel, France, USA. A major legal issue in Romanian tourism concerns the granting of visas for both foreign tourists and Romanians, who have both incoming and outgoing tourism. Incoming tourism is export-oriented tourism that brings money to Romania. And government authorities are interested in developing and supporting it. Outgoing tourism remains a private issue, a market that needs to be sustained and developed by the travel agencies involved. For incoming tourism we expect not only coherent statistics, but also an improvement in the way the MFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) gives visas to tourists who want to enter Romania. We hope for more transparency and efficiency in obtaining visas so that we can get much easier in the country, both Chinese tourists and tourists from Arab countries or from Moldova and even from Russia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studying the behavior of the consumer of sheep meat and meat products in the historical Banat, which stretches on the territory of two countries (Romania and Serbia), we can understand the motivations and the finality materialized in the purchases made by them, having major implications for the improvement of the offer from the market of meat products and increase of the marketing result in case of sheep raising and exploitation farms, but also within the processing units. It is noted, regarding the consumption of sheep meat, that men from the Romanian Banat do not like this type of meat, especially those from the 31-40 years age group, compared to the male sex from Serbia, which in the same age segment consumes this type of meat several times a week. Regarding to sheep meat products, women from the 21-30 years age group prefer these sausages regardless of where they live. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Everyone needs protection, whether if we think at individuals or legal entities. Throughout a lifetime, are accumulate a series of goods, values, agonized with a lot of labor, which can disappear in a moment following a fire, an earthquake, a theft or some other reason. The resulting financial loss can not be offset otherwise than by insurance. The insurance market is a framework in which insurance transactions are carried out only on a contractual basis. Here are found the insurance request, coming from individuals and legal entities wishing to conclude different types of insurance and the insurance offer, coming from the legal entities, namely, organizations, specialized companies, which are authorized to operate in the insurance field and to carrying out such an activity, of course, under financial report. Compared to other countries from Western Europe, it can be said that Romania does not have an old insurance tradition, although manifestations of protection on mutual bases exist in Transylvania even from14th century. Today, the insurance market in our country is dominated by international groups with tradition and experience in the field. Insurance companies are in continuous changing, adapting to the requirements of the market, but also to the economic and financial situation from the country. All these changes lead to the improvement and promotion of the insurance policies of all kinds, which is beneficial for both insurers and insured. The insurance market from Romania is characterized by a high degree of concentration. In 2015, a total of 79.25% from the total gross written premiums was made by 10 insurance companies from 35 companies performing insurance/reinsurance activity at 31 December 2015, a situation similar to the previous years and the first quarter of 2016. Unlike the European insurance market which is dominated by the life insurance segment (about 61% according to Insurance Europe data for 2014), in Romania it represented only about 17% of gross written premiums, the market being dominated by general insurance, respectively the auto ones. Regarding the geographical distribution of underwritings, it is noted that both in case of general insurances and life insurances, the contracts with cumulative most important value are in Bucharest and Ilfov, followed at a significant distance by the Northwest, South and Center Regions. In case of life insurances, the discrepancy between Bucharest and Ilfov region and the other regions of the country is much more pronounced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concern to protect consumers' dates back to antiquity, the development of merchandise exchanges in markets from cities is not a random and uncontrollable phenomenon. The market of tourist products and services, in continuous development, leads implicitly to evolutions in the field of consumers' protection, which will strengthen the cooperation with non-governmental organizations and with civil society. Consumers' protection in the tourism sphere is part of the social policies promoted by any state. At the same time, due to the importance that it presents, it must constitute in a self-standing policy, with its own objectives, priorities and own instruments. At present, the tourism consumer, in his quality of bearer of services demand has become a real market partner, whose positions in the market are strengthening as society develops. The purchasing behavior of tourism consumers is affecting more and more businesses, organizations, bodies and institutions, so that why to the consumers is being given ever more attention. Complex relationships between economic agents generate extremely diverse issues, which can be the subject of consumer protection programs. Both governments and other bodies, which activate in the field of consumer protection, establish certain structures and areas for their protection programs of consumers. But there are certain consumer protection areas over which all governments, associations, institutions and bodies with implications in consumers protection have been stopped, such as: Improving the consumption of the population through the social policies of the states; Ensuring the quality of the tourist services offered for sale within the market; Providing a pricing system in line with market requirements and the quality of tourism products; The organization of a useful information system for tourist consumers; Protecting consumers against aggressive commercial practices and lying tourist advertising. This research provides a study regarding the analysis of services offered and the fight against consumer from public food units from tourism industry. Was used the quantitative survey based on questionnaires as research method. The sample chosen was representative, being composed from a significant number of peoples from different areas of the city, with different ages and different occupations. The conclusions drawn from the study were made following the processing of the answers received after the application of the questionnaires, processed in the SPSS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Development of tourist services has a major importance in the economy of each country in order to ensure the increasing of living standards of the population. The hotels offer is focused around the accommodation, representing for more than 50% from the total of the receipts, and constitutes a service, quite. The client, who has been captured by the accommodation hotel, is presented with the whole offer, together with other services made available to him. The other services, of smaller importance represent for a client a special satisfaction, an additional comfort degree, throughout the tourist leisure stay. The accommodation service shape the comfort and the conditions for the rush and rest of the tourist. The quality, the structure and the volume of the accommodation services have close connections and depend a lot by the presence of a specific material basis, and by their quantity and by their quality directly in the development of hotel and his efficiency in the field. The present study conducts a research regarding the satisfaction degree of tourist service consumers in rural and urban area. As in any research, there have been established some goals, the decision-making problem and, implicitly, its transposition into a research problem. As objectives, it was desired to identify factors influencing consume decision regarding the hotels tourist services from rural and urban area. The sample chosen was representative, consisting of a significant number of people, different ages and different occupations. All the conclusions drawn from the study were made following the processing of the answers received after the application of the questionnaires, processed in the SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Increasing tourism based on nature pointed out the need to protect the natural environment intact and delicate, and in some cases, local communities unfamiliar with the business practices of highly developed areas. On the other hand, the eco-tourist has become more demanding and looking for a high quality of service and a special contact with nature. The introduction of codes of conduct, quality assurance, labeling and certification services standardized, all tried in some way to satisfy those needs. Besides natural heritage, cultural heritage is essential for an ecotourism product, it aimed to maximize the positive effects that ecotourism brings. We can refer here to the local architecture; monuments and archaeological sites; historical buildings and sites; crafts; popular port; local cuisine; songs and music; customs and festivals, myths and legends etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many EU governments recognize that rural tourism is an alternative that can save agriculture and that "over the next 20 years, tourism will be the mainstay of the economy, and tourism and rural tourism will become the tourism of the future". Peculiarities of rural tourist areas, various financing arrangements for the purpose of investment in rural tourism, create for the future investor many dilemmas. There are many regions in that serve to be promoted and visited, particularly for traditional, specific, authentic products that it offers. The paper's goal is to realize an overview of the valuable elements of a rural, mountainous area from Romania, still not appropriate exploited in terms of tourism. Furthermore, the purpose is to realize a concrete study specifically on how the employment degree of an agrotourist household influences payback time. Were analyzed cases considered: (I.a) total investment, without loans, (I.b) total investment, subsidized with 50% case, (II.a) investment with 10 year loan, advance 50%, 7% interest, (II.b.) 10 year loan investment with 50% advance, interest 7%, subsidized with 50% case, (III.a) the investment with 10 year loan, advance 0%, 7%interest (III.b.) investment with 10 year loan, advance 0% 7% interest, subsidized with 50% case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Customer satisfaction does not represent a veiled aspect, an ambiguous syntagma with to show that tourism unit "cares" but represent, in fact, the key point of the business. The continued growth of the offer supply makes it imperative necessary the fact that it should not only be known but also stimulated, by highlighting of the benefits for the consumers. Daily maintenance of consumers and attracting of the new ones can be done by offering a better product or service at the same price with the competition or product or service at a lower price. Customer satisfaction requires a more realistic anticipation of the customer needs and desires. For entrepreneurs, consumer satisfaction represents a big challenge, given the fact that markets are heterogeneous, being formed by different types of consumers who have different desires and needs. Therefore it is necessary that the firms to know as better as it are possible the characteristics of customers both in terms of quantity and from structural point of view, qualitative and behavioral. Consumer behavior is the result of a cognitive process, it means the sequences of thinking, evaluation and decision, determining concrete actions and exchanges between firms and consumers take place only when they satisfy their mutual interests. The present study conducts a research regarding the consumer buying behavior of tourist services. As through any research, they were set some goals, the decision problem and implicitly its transposition in a research problem. As objectives, it sought to identify factors that influence the taking of the consume decision regarding tourism services. Selected sample was representative, consisting from a large number of peoples from different areas of the city, of different ages and with different occupations. All conclusions drawn from the study were made after the processing the answers received after the application of the questionnaires, processing performed in SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mission of development strategy of localities from the plain of Romania and the diversification of their functional profile relies on attracting sustainable economic activities, promotion of the quality services, expansion and modernization of infrastructures, renewal of public spaces, in a stimulating and prosperous living environment, equitable for all citizens. The locality taken under study is a multicultural urban pole, with a high standard of living, prosperous community with a dynamic economy, active in the field of culture, education, tourism and cross-border cooperation. Smart and sustainable development can only be achieved only in a stable social climate, cohesive and inclusive. The formulation of the strategic objective of development starts from the premise that, practically, in any field, the organizational factor is crucial for the success, influencing, in a significant way, the activities of other sectors. For a community, the development strategies must be constructed in such a way in order to include more variables, to be flexible and capable to adapt to changes that appears in society. They should maximize their strengths (strengths), to attenuate or even to eliminate their weaknesses, to detect the opportunities offered by the external environment and to diminish the risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout the world there is a stiff competition among tourist destinations in general and health in particular, that should take care of the adaptation of modern policies, aggressive but also of increasing the quality of services. The practice of health tourism development revealed the fact that the absence of a unified strategy for local development, which could have been materialized in the General Urban Plan, it came as tourist sites to be realized casual and without grounded market research, going by the principle of creating objective to stimulate the interest. This principle has caused malfunctions by achieving the sites outside the general tourist frame, demonstrating that this practice jeopardizes much part of the investment made until today, given that the development of rural infrastructure involves structuring the infrastructure elements in other perimeters. The directions of Romanian health tourism development are determined by overall macroeconomic development, by a better reglementation, from a legal perspective, of the issue of this form of tourism and by the involvement of the Romanian Government in supporting Romanian tourism and health tourism. Health tourism can be a lever for local development in rural areas. For as health offer to have high value, it is necessary that the economic value of adjacent activities to remain at a high level, a principle who not cover only attractiveness exercised by the rural environment, but also the specific activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The lack of a realistic vision of the future for the European village, on the qualifications needed for the diversification of activities, which set up a multifunctional rural development becomes more acute. At Community level there are a number of initiatives for rural development, LEADER is one of them, whose purpose is to encourage, at European level, public-private partnerships and sharing best practices to promoting rural world. Public-private solution, as cooperation, in various forms, from public authorities and business environment, in order to ensure the funding, construction, renovation, management, maintenance of an infrastructure or providing a service, is not a novelty. In some EU countries, functioning of this type of partnership has good results, which is reflected in the strong development of the rural area. Local Action Groups are such public-private partnerships and has the task to identify and implement a local development strategy, making decisions on the allocation of financial resources and manage them. These groups can effectively stimulate sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The decisive role of tourism service quality is represented by the essential elements of the quality: fairness in the service, promptness, courtesy, kindness to consumers. Travel service strategy should contribute to increasing the company's value system and push the organization to provide above the mediocrity The strategy of travel service must also rely on on the quality of services, to provide consumer value, to be consistent with firm practices and to stimulate the staff creativity. Concretely, this study presents the research quality of tourism services within the Romanian accommodation structures. Furthermore, we tried to develop a strategy for increasing the quality of tourism services. The analysis was conducted on the following: customer requirements, generation of customer trust, the external image of Romanian tourism company, company's market assessment, systematic operation, customer safety, awareness of the need to implement a quality system adequate and economic efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]