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Cultural-religious tourism, as part of cultural tourism, seems to register an increase today, especially with regard to unholy/ secular monuments with a special historical load or with special architecture. This category includes the northern area of Romania, Maramures, where there are not less than 8 wooden churches in the UNESCO Heritage. Besides these there are other religious monuments. Using this monument from the touristic point of view requires an entire infrastructure. Thus, the study aims to find the necessary resources for the development of another sector of activity to help the recovery of the local economy. Methodologically there have been followed a series of steps that have meant accepting and supporting the population in terms of the development of tourism in areas where monuments registered in the national heritage are still present. Therefore, methodologically empirical methods have been used. The questionnaires were applied to residents, and the results show changes from one year to the next, the trend being positive. The questionnaires were implemented within 4 years, 2013- 2016. After applying the questionnaires in order to analyze the acceptance and support of the tourism idea by the population, the results indicate a rapid adaptation to local economic changes. At the same time, statistical data are analyzed as well as the evolution of the number of companies that have tourism as their activity object, and of the number of employees in tourism, from the localities where these monuments are still present. The results of the study will come to support tourism, especially cultural tourism. They indicate on the one hand the theoretical desire of the population in the development of tourism, on the other hand, can not be seen economically materialized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Assessing archaeological and cultural potential is a key milestone to shaping a complex study that can impact sustainable tourism within a particular geographic area. The study aims to identify monuments capable of meeting the requirements of cultural and tourist activity through: accessibility, originality, seniority, maintenance or level of rehabilitation and promotion. The analyzed geographic area is the historical and geographical province of Romania, Dobrogea. It is a province with a great historical background, and the presence of monuments has a peculiarity related to the age of the monuments, as well as by particularities offered by the multi-ethnicity coexisting in this geographical area. The methodology seeks, first of all, to go through the List of Cultural Monuments made up by the Ministry of Culture in Romania. The second stage is the individual analysis on the field for each monument mentioned in the list, as well as the identification of the level of cultural and tourist valorization, according to the mentioned criteria. The tourists' exigent requirements and, generally, the ones of the tourist activity do not allow the listing and usage of the monuments that have very low accessibility, originality or rehabilitation levels within touristic circuits or tourist offerings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Romania represents a new pole of interest of people engaged in leisure time spending within musical festivals. Thus, lately, the Romanian musical festivals have achieved significant progress, which is easy to visualize due to intense promotion and beneficial marketing, but also through the major national and international interest for the two important events that are the subject of this research. This research focuses on visualizing the main problems raised by the participants of the Untold and Neversea festivals through social media, as well as an attempt to hospitalize them. The intention of the research is to highlight the participants' ability to signal the various problems within these festivals and their ability to become opinion leaders or formatters. The research was conducted through a single social media channel, namely the Facebook platform, where a sample of 1000 unique reviews for each of the two festivals was analyzed. What has emerged from the proposed research is that the participants are a key factor in identifying the main organizational issues, but also the starting point in solving them for future editions. The research also highlighted the fact that the participants positioned the problems in the second plan, their main motivation to participate in the potential future editions being the line-up. The research results have a milestone significance in terms of the fact that the social media pages of the selected festivals can become effective marketing forms through positive reviews, but also a starting point for identifying and solving problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The existence of material traces with special cultural value in a certain geographic area could lead to a certain profile of the locality, so as to extend the functional area after them. In our study we are making an analysis of all the locations situated along the Danube, where the traces of the ancient fortresses of antiquity and also of the medieval period prove the intense life of the past, and we are investigating to what extent they constitute today tourist attractions, or participate in the local cultural profile. The study is based on the comparative analysis between the Sucidava Fortress Citadel and the other Danubian citadels. Methodological steps were followed. Firstly, local analysis of the city's ruins is required, followed by the empirical analysis of questionnaires and surveys for the resident population and tourists in the area regarding the tourist promotion of the city's ruins and their inclusion in the tourist circuits. The next step is to compare the unspoken fortresses with Sucidava Fortress Citadel and its role today in the Corabia city profile. Our results show that promotion through educational tourism and cultural tourism in general contributes to the stimulation of the desire to know local history in European context. Most of these cities are not sufficiently promoted, but can represent, over time, through an administrative policy aiming at highlighting the local cultural heritage, a real source of income and not only, for every locality. This can be done by several methods, one of which could be its inclusion in school visits, their involvement in educational activities, followed by their inclusion in national and European cultural circuits. The consequent results provide a visibility framework regarding the following local materials. The local population wants their involvement in promoting them, and tourists are interested in them and are looking to discover as many historic places as possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The migration of the population is one of the demographic phenomena causing quite large changes. Negative effects are felt especially in the areas of departure, where the aging tendency is clearly recorded. The Danube port towns in Romania, as a result of the political and administrative changes registered over the last 25 years, once with the transition from the centralized socialist economy to the free market economy, have recorded this phenomenon of population mobility, especially of the young population, in a quite acute manner. The study aims to evaluate this aspect and to propose solutions for the recovery of the economic situation of each city/town, depending on the existing social and economic particularities. Methodologically, a series of steps have been considered with respect to components of the studies; on the one hand, the assessment of the socio-demographic situation in each city/town, and on the other hand, finding and proposing solutions as alternatives to local development. The assessment of the local economic situation is based on the CAEN data of each city/town. The results of the study confirm the functional changes of each city/town, the mutations in the sociodemographic structure, as well as the acceptance and support provided by the population with respect to alternative solutions for the local economic development. In conclusion, the considerable reduction of the labour force with each year can cause serious changes in the Romanian economy, which requires finding a solution for the future, so that its situation will not become critical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With time, the localities within the Carpathian and Sub-Carpathian space of Romania have changed their functionality because of several historical and social events that took place. The study aims to highlight the transformations that have been observed over time, explaining the situation of the last few years and the trends that could favour the local economic situation. Thus, the research has been based on the analysis of the documents that rightfully proclaimed the establishment of the locality, on the analysis of the economic and political functions held by the locality over time, as well as on the field study concerning the importance of the Dracula brand relative to the upheaval of the local income. Following the field study, data has been collected because of having consulted several representative samples of tourists, resident population and official statistical data. The obtained results emphasize the impact of this development idea, which can contribute to the increase of the functional complexity of these territorial systems, where brand tourism may be implemented. Brand tourism and traditional value tourism contribute to the emergence of economic multiplier effects. Tourism development can mean the emerge of new jobs in a period of economic crisis and of a relative social crisis. It can also be considered a factor of popularization of the cultural identity, which plays an important part in promoting cultural diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]