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The paper proposes an in-depth analysis of Romania's agrotourism services market, highlighting its evolution and regional/counties concentration. Romania, renowned for its cultural and touristic diversity, employs agrotourism to facilitate authentic interactions with local communities, offering insights into native culture. Utilizing Clarivate, Google Scholar, and Research Gate databases, the research employs statistical processing and graphical representation. Market concentration is gauged using the Herfindahl-Hirschman and Gini-Struck indices. Findings reveal a dynamic national sector with an annual growth rate surpassing 10%. Regionally, concentration levels are notably high, with the North-West, Center, North-East, and South-East collectively contributing over 75%. Countylevel concentration is moderate, indicating potential development even in areas with untapped resources. Romanian authorities actively promote agrotourism, capitalizing on rural development potential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tourism became one of the most important economic activity in the world after the '60s, when mankind began to be more interested in its holiday destinations. Thus, more and more tourists wanted to spend their leisure time and holidays in the countryside, being largely influenced by environmental ideas, by the desire to escape from traditional tourist structures, by the search for the best quality / price ratio, etc. This article aims to provide a summary on sustainable development of the tourism sector in rural areas in the European Union and Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present the evolution of agriculture in Prahova County, in the period 2014-2018, analyzing in particular the production of cereals, fruits and vegetables without omitting animal husbandry and the production of milk and eggs. In order to highlight the main trends of agricultural production in Prahova County, the areas cultivated with cereals for grains, oil plants, potatoes, vegetables, as well as the areas occupied by orchards, vineyards and livestock were subjected to analysis. Grain cereals occupy an average of 95,502.4 hectares, being the largest area. This is followed by the average of oil plants with 27,156.6 hectares, followed by vegetables with an average of 4,230 hectares and potato cultivation with an average of 2,530.4 hectares. For the other crops analyzed, there were increases in maize, fodder, barley production and decreases in rye production. The analysis of fruit and vegetable production highlighted the fact that it belongs largely to private property, this being an asset for the development of slang tourism in Prahova County. Analyzing the milk production, a decreasing trend was found over the entire analyzed period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Capitalizing on the natural, cultural and anthropogenic potential for tourism in rural areas represents an important chance for local economy in Romania. Some of the main assets of a rural touristic destination are weather and climate conditions along with overall quality of services provided. Therefore, including climate and other relevant environmental information (e.g. on the greenness of the vegetation, low level of pollution etc.) in the promotion of agrotourism may contribute to a faster uptake of potential consumers/tourists and increase of overall success of the agritourist activity. In this line, we present a selection of such information tailored for tourism and customizable for specific locations which may positively contribute to building the image of the agritourist destination. The information, developed by the National Meteorological Administration, is currently available for 160 touristic locations in Romania, free of charge, through the web-based application WECTOU (Weather and Climate for Tourism) http://wectou.meteoromania.ro/. Personalized information is available as well as a larger palette of climate and environmental products, such that to answer efficiently the specific requirements of the user. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current study highlights the main forms of ownership of agrotourism pensions, a classification of agrotourism pensions in the Apuseni Mountains area, a presentation of agrotourism pensions according to the period of business development in this field of activity, as well as a grouping of agrotourism pensions by funding sources. The Apuseni Mountains areahas been and is a special attraction for both Romanian and foreign tourists, due to the traditional tourist attractions in this region. Following the increase in the flow of tourists, we are witnessing a diversification of the forms of accommodation and catering. Currently, tourism entrepreneurs orient themselves towards the establishment of agrotourism pensions because they have found that tourists are increasingly attracted to the practice of tourism as close to nature as possible. In order to achieve the objectives proposed from the beginning, it was necessary to carry out a quantitative study based on questioning. It was applied to a number of 110 managers from agrotourism pensions in the Apuseni Mountains area. On the one hand, statistical data taken from the Ministry of Tourism were used in the paper, and on the other hand, the information obtained from the application of the questionnaire was used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aimed to carry out a detailed and complex study on the possibility and opportunity of applying total management to the boarding house Frații Jderi in Păscoia, Vâlcea County using a modern research methodology and perfectly adapted to the proposed topic. First of all, the tourist potential of the area, represented by the richness and beauty of the natural and anthropic tourist resources, was analyzed very well from all points of view. Also, data were collected on the position and accessibility in the area, the architectural style of the pension which is one adapted to the specifics of the area with a perfect fit in the beauty and harmony of the local landscape. At the same time, the main indicators that define the application of total quality management in the "Frații Jderi" holiday village and which reflect the evolution of the rural tourism activity as: accommodation capacity, number of arrivals in boarding house, number of overnight stays in boarding houses were realistically and pertinently analyzed. Along with them, other indicators were approached: indicators of tourist demand, indicators of tourist circulation, indicators of tourist offer, indicators of the quality of tourist activity. At the end of the research, it was found from the processing of all data, that the administrator and staff working in the pension apply a management that fully respects the principles of total quality, because almost all indicators analyzed have grown steadily from year to year, significantly exceeding average values national. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Romanian rural environment is not a serial product, because it bears the imprint of the unhackneyed, of the original and as a result it arrives itself in front of the urban communities. Romania has great possibilities for agro-tourism development which can be a way of increasing the standard of living and civilization of the Romanian village, and its inhabitants, through hospitality, can compete with the inhabitants of other European states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to present the concrete situation in the South East Region of Romania, respectively in Tulcea County. In this paper it is presented data about the structure of the population, by ethnicity and gender, on the residence environment, distribution by age group, the accommodation units structure and the number of Romanian and foreign tourists who has visited the studied county. The development of agritourism in the area is laid in this paper, in close connection with the physical-geographic framework, the tourist objectives in the area and implicitly its economic development. National Institute of Statistics data were used and processed according to the objectives of the paper. The paper is finalized with a SWOT analysis that sets out conclusions and tries to be the reason why an investor would set up an agro-tourist hostel in the area taking advantage of the rare natural beauty and offering somewhat unusual accommodation conditions - but warm and welcoming - more especially for foreign tourists [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the 1950's, the tourism industry played a very important role for the global economic development. In 2017, tourism contributed with a fare of around 10% at the worldwide level. For the European Union, tourism has a very high significance for the market. Half of the tourist international arrivals are taken over by the European region and the economic contribution is similar for the rest of the world. Beside this, tourism has a high relevance for employment, with a contribution of around 12%. Unfortunately, for Romania, a country with a very high tourism potential, its resources are not exploited as appropriate, and the tourism contribution represents half of the European average. Our country occupies the 159th position out of 185. Besides this, the agrotourism for the Romanian market does not have a very high share, as it is still a developing segment of tourism. It started to take amplitude from 2000, when Romania received accession funds through the SAPARD support program. Since 2007, agrotourism received financing through the National Rural Development Program (NRDP) in the two multi annual financial frameworks: 2007-2013 and 2014-2020. The present study aims to analyse the situation in the N-E region and Suceava County from an agrotourism perspective by taking into consideration the effect of the rural development program on the number of agrotouristic structures, number of beds and employment. By the number of agrotouristic structures, the county occupies the third place in Romania, passed by Harghita County (281) and Brasov County (200) in 2007. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study focuses on highlighting the current status of rural tourism and of the tendencies in its development in terms of some tourist indicators and the relationship between them and the tourist potential of the parishes, even from the disadvantaged areas. The inquiry of the statistics data and of the different situations at the level of county and parish / parishes, their analysis and interpretation outlines spaces of Romania characterized through emphasised dynamics or through a weakly developed one of tourism, probably also as a direct answer to the various actions of implementation of the documents connected with the policy of rural space at the level of counties or even within the same county. There are rural areas where entrepreneurship (farmers / owners of agroturist boarding houses) plays an important role in the development and diversification of tourist activities through cultural and economic convergence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to achieve a comparative analysis of agro-tourism in the first three macro-regions of Romania regarding the number of agro-touristic pensions as well as the number of Romanian and foreign tourists. This analysis highlights the consistency between the physico-geographic framework, the tourism objectives and the development of agrotourism in the mentioned regions (North-West Region, North-East Region and Center Region). The data were taken from the National Institute of Statistics and processed according to the objectives of the paper. From the work, there are a number of reasons for setting up an agro-touristic pension in an area with a rare natural beauty that offers tourists warm, welcoming accommodation conditions for foreign tourists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work was compiled in order to identify and analyze the tourism potential of the North-West Development Region as a whole and the tourism potential of Bistriţa-Năsăud County in detail, as well as its capitalization degree. In order to achieve this approach, in our analysis we used evolution and structure indicators for the next indicators of the tourism potential: touristic units structure, their dispersal within the North-West Development Region, the areas of this perimeter which presents potential for touristic development, etc. As a result of this analysis, the data showed an area with a very high tourism potential for developing competitive touristic products, but unfortunately this potential is extremely poorly capitalized. The same trend was noticed also to Bistri?a-Năsăud County which although has an important potentially in agrotourism, the basis for its exploitation is insufficient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For Romania agrotourism is a form of tourism that enjoys of the greatest potential, its development being a tool of sustainable development, both economically but also socially and culturally for Romanian rural area. Favorable relief conditions that are available, the beauty of landscapes, clean air, water, mountain areas, traditions and customs kept alive, and in the present, the specific of Moldavian gastronomy and not least the well-known hospitality of the locals, make from Bucovina one of the Romania's main tourist areas. Even if the inhabitants of these places understand the need of capitalization of existing tourist resources in this area and they crossed to the development of accommodation infrastructure by converting their homes in agrotourist guesthouses by building new accommodation structures, however, the tourist potential of this land is not yet intense exploited. The main problems encountered are related to the quality and standards of provided tourist services, involving of the hosts in agrotourism activities, lack of collaboration between local authorities and guesthouses operators, but the infrastructure and funding sources remain major issues - national issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study was conducted in May-June 2013, in two places in the tourist area called "Mărginimea Sibiului", Sibiu, Romania. The research instrument used was a questionnaire comprising 25 questions and was sent to the owners / managers of pensions (18 people) by 9 people from rural places Sibiel and 9 people from Gura Râului. According to data from Sibiu County Tourism Association, in Sibiel there are recorded 40 tourist structures, and in Gura Râului, 22. Data from the field were processed, systematized and interpreted. The overall objectives were: establishing typology of tourist structures, knowing the comfort of pensions, the average capacity of accommodation, the average length of stay. Special attention was given to the knowledge of the main sights of natural and anthropogenic existing and surrounding area. Improving in pensions an infrastructure for sport as a means of leisure was another objective of the research. We also were interested in issues related to the average age of tourists, their backgrounds, insofar there is demand for sports. We wanted to see if the pensions are serving traditional products and cuisine and their origin. Another goal pursued was related to the education level of owners / managers of pensions, their satisfaction in relation to the results achieved, difficulties encountered in the current work, and how to promote services and products. The paper presents some ways to promote rural tourism in Sibiu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Agrotourism represents the most important way for developing the rural area, generating income and creating jobs. The aim of the paper is to analyze the economic importance of tourism and agro-tourism, between the periods 2001 - 2011, for the top 10 leading countries by tourism receipts, according to Data World Bank: USA, China, Germany, France, England, Italy, Spain, Australia, Turkey and Austria, plus the main countries witch Romania is in competition, Hungary and Bulgaria, by the contribution of tourism and agro-tourism sector in accomplishment of GDP, by average made on the analyzed period and by annual growth rate, analyze that place Romania on the position 150 of 176 countries surveyed with an annual growth rate of 1.52% from GDP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainable development requires important changes to be accomplished in all sectors of economic activity and tourism is not an exception. Moreover, tourism was amongst the first sectors that integrated the ecological criteria in product design, strategies and development plans. The outmost of this trend is concentrated in ecotourism that will be proved to be a key factor for achieving the ambitious goals of sustainable development. Our approach emphasizes the role of events organized by guesthouses and explains how these events could be used for improving the marketing strategies in Romanian villages. The impact of 2008 economic crisis is integrated in the analysis building on its crucial role for the widespread acceptance of the green economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we aimed at analysing the impact of the normative acts elaborated by the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism in 2011 on authorising agrotourist guesthouses in Romania. The survey targeted the comparative analysis of the minister's orders in 2008-2010 and of the Minister's Order No. 1051/2011 regarding the agrotourist guesthouses classification criteria and classification procedure. In the second part of the survey, we performed a comparative analysis of the number of agrotourist guesthouses classified by the ministry in the interval January-June 2010 as compared to 2011. A first conclusion of this survey is represented by the fact that the Minister's Order issued in 2011 simplified the bureaucracy of authorising agrotourist guesthouses and the other accommodation and public catering units. Practically, according to the new regulations, the authorisation file contains an application and three more documents, as compared to the old requirements, according to which the file was quite sizeable. Through the adopted measures, the interval between the date the standardised statement accompanied by the full classification documentation is submitted and the date the classification certificate is issued is decreased to 30 days. The fulfilment of the classification criteria is verified after the authorisation within the control activities performed by the representatives with specific responsibilities within the central public administration authority responsible in the field of tourism. A second conclusion is that there is an increase in the number of classified agrotourist guesthouses and that they progress from the black tourism market area to that of the authorised, legal tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the natural and artificial potential form the rural environment in the county of Sibiu. Here are presented the rural areas that have touristic abilities (the area of Marginimea Sibiului, counties with churches and fortresses surrounding Sibiu, a valley of Hartibaci, the plateau of Tarnave and counties situated in the low side of Fagaras montains). In Sibiel there is a tradition in practicing the agroturism for about 34 years. Here there are 34 rural touristic/agroturistic pensions recognized by the ANT. In Marginimea Sibiului there were identified the following types of touristic villages: ethnographic-folk in Răşinari, Sibiel, Sadu, Tilişca, Poiana; by artistic creation and craftsman, in Gura Râului, Sălişte, Poiana; landscape and climatic, in Jina şi Râul Sadului (and Pătiniş), pastoral villages, in Jina, Poiana, Râu Sadului, Rod. In the rural area of the county are practiced diffrent types of tourism: mountain tourism, itinerary, cultural toursim, etno tourism, rural/agrotourism, religious tourism balneal tourism. Only in Marginimea Sibiului work 164 of agroturistic pensions. The paper work presents the main touristic routes in this area. There are poposed measures that are supposed to help developing the rural tourism in Sibiu. There are also proposed means of promoting the agroturistic product in Sibiu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper films is to present the regional initiatives launched outside of Hungary's borders in the last few decades which have proved functional as well as the Euro-regions that concern our country (Popoviciu, Gabriela, 2007). It is characteristic of Euro-regions that they do not have a local government or political power of their own, their activity falls in the range of competency of the local and regional authorities that constitute them, and they do not form a part of the official regional statistical system of the EU (NUTS). They also show a wide variety in terms of their structure. Some consist of administrative units of the same level (Carpathians Euro-Region), others comprise cities, towns and other units, like the Danube-Körös-Maros-Tisza Euro-region. Bihor - Hajdú-Bihar represent a new form of close regions cooperation. This region is situated at the border between East and West. Individualised, the region is situated in the North-West of Romania and East of Hungary, with a population of about 1.1 million inhabitants and 13,775 sq. km. It has two components: a plain area and a mountain area, each of one with specific attractions. Apuseni Mountains National Park (in Bihor) and Hortobagy National Park (in Hajdú-Bihar) are the main attractions. In addition, through the urban-rural diversity, cultural, folkloric and ethnographic resources, the region is very interesting because of the cultural and historical complexity of the region. A lot of tourism forms can be promoted (balnear, rural, cultural, sports, business travels etc.) and tourist packages can be created (Bădulescu, Alina, Bădulescu, D., 2006). We consider that is absolutely necessary to create a marketing strategy based on the complementary aspects of the two areas and creating synergies in the benefice of them. The long lasting development of the tourism in our region, throughout creation of an adequate communication in the shape of a relationship, in order to turn into account experience and stored information by the partners involved and to determine dynamism of the touristic field in the area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]