Abstract
The aim of this study is to present a historical approach of Romanian winter sports tourism focused on the importance and the future-oriented development of the skiing activity and ski resorts, having as landmarks: the end of the 19th century, the beginning of the communist regime (1948) and the fall of the communism (the Revolution of 1989). Based on a bibliographic documentation and statistical data, the study underlines mainly the development particularities of winter sports tourism for each period of time. Winter sports have been practiced in Romania since the end of 19th century. Many sports associations and clubs from different regions of the country having as objective to promote winter sports appeared at that time. During the communist period ski areas were not a priority. A series of investments was made in order to increase the accommodation capacity. The intense political, social and economic transformation experienced by Romania during the first years following the Revolution of 1989 led to a lower demand of tourism services which affected the development of winter tourism. Romania does huge efforts to develop the ski activity which will positively influence the evolution of winter sports tourism.
Highlights
Located in the south-eastern part of Central Europe, Romania is a country with a very varied and diverse tourism potential and a landscape consists of 27.91% mountains of total country area, with altitudes between 600 2500m, an average height of 840m and 10% of the country’s territory above 1500m
The aim of this study is to present a historical approach of Romanian winter sports tourism focused on emergence and development of skiing and ski resorts over the years, having as landmarks: the end of the 19th century, the beginning of communist regime (1948) and the fall of communism
Winter sports tourism after 1990 The intense political, social and economic transformation experienced by Romania during the first years following the Revolution of 1989 led to a lower demand of tourism services which affected the development of winter tourism
Summary
Located in the south-eastern part of Central Europe, Romania is a country with a very varied and diverse tourism potential and a landscape consists of 27.91% mountains of total country area, with altitudes between 600 2500m, an average height of 840m and 10% of the country’s territory above 1500m. The hills and plateaus have altitudes between 200-600m and the plains under 200 m (Posea, 2005). The development of ski resorts in Romania experienced several stages, each of this having different political, economic and social context. Harnessing tourism potential that this country possesses has not been a priority because of different conjunctures, more or less favourable during the time
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