STUDY REGARDING THE EFFECTS OF THE SARS COV 2 PANDEMIC ON TOURISM IN THE NORTH WEST REGION OF ROMANIA .

The pandemic has had a lasting and damaging effect on all aspects of the human society and economics. One of the most affected area of the economy was the tourist activity. The travel limitations, the lockdowns, the medical dangers have made travel virtually impossible in the first half of 2020 while the second part of the year was a tumultuous one, with a lot of restrictions put into place that have seriously hinder the tour operators and hotels activities. This global and European situation also affected the national tourism in Romania. Although later one in 2020 the European wide restrictions were more relaxed at the national level we often had some restrictions imposed by the local circumstances. All too often the tourists were affected. Even if the great majority of Romanian tourists preferred visiting the country yet this influx was all too often not enough to ensure a real prosperity of the tourist agencies and hotels. This paper analyses the impact of these restrictions on the North-West Region of Romania, by emphasising the local peculiarities and how the pandemic affected a specific region of Romania in the tourist area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]