Abstract
Research on sustainable tourism involves developing an appropriate framework to highlight the interdependences of economic, social and environmental systems. The interdependence is based on the entropy of the system while respecting the principle of holism and diversity of rural tourism sustainability. In this context, sustainability in general and rural tourism in particular can be considered a complex system of development, which in some ways can be studied by statistical and econometric methods that allow the analysis of the interdependences between the variables of rural tourism at county level and at the level of rural communities. Conducting such studies involves identifying the rural communities where rural tourism has reached significant levels. Based on this consideration, this paper aims to identify the development regions and counties of Romania where the trends of development of rural tourism are significantly above the average recorded at country level, as a first step towards particular studies of sustainability in rural communities.
Highlights
Against the background of globalization and sustainable development processes exhibited worldwide, the tourism of the third millennium outlines tourism products aiming to fulfill requirements of authenticity and specificity, environmental safety, durability and sustainability
Assuming that rural tourism is an element that determines growth and that, in turn, economic growth contributes to the development of tourism, between the two elements there is a positive feedback loop; the objectives of the research were, on the one hand, the analysis of tourist traffic and, on the other hand, to highlight how the fluctuations of the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) affect tourist traffic developments, with implications in the sustainable development of rural areas
To achieve the research objectives we chose to develop an econometric model of the panel type [22], based on data taken from official documents [20,23] and the official data series provided online by the National Institute for Statistics of Romania (2014) on the above-mentioned indicators, for the period from 2000–2012, and for the following economic development regions of Romania: North West, the Central region, North-East, South-East, South-Muntenia, Bucharest-Ilfov, South-West, West
Summary
Against the background of globalization and sustainable development processes exhibited worldwide, the tourism of the third millennium outlines tourism products aiming to fulfill requirements of authenticity and specificity, environmental safety, durability and sustainability. Considering the international tourism trend and the touristic potential of Romania, one can mention the need to revitalize its management process based on the promotion and practice of sustainable tourism, high quality and high responsibility. This can only be done taking into account the particularities of each form of tourism. At the current level of human development, decision or action in a field have multiple implications in other areas Under these circumstances, Mebratu [10] emphasizes sustainability as a co-integrative flow between economic, ecological and social subsystems which contain productive capital, environmental capital, and social and human capital, forming an aggregate statistical system [11]. Ruta et al [15] suggest, as sustainability criteria, maintaining a level that is at least steady for certain economic, social and environmental indicators
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