Abstract
"In Romania, though there were some attempts to develop the rural tourism during the communist times, this domain has really started developing only after 1990. In Moţilor Land the exact extent of this development is hard to grasp from the official documents as most of the tourism accommodation infrastructure is still not fully certified. The present paper would like to size as accurately as possible the difference between what the official documents are saying and the reality of the situation. We concentrate our analysis on the evolution of the accommodation infrastructure before 2010 and after. We also take a short look at the road and rail infrastructure as it plays a significant role in the development of tourism in the area. Keywords: “Moţilor Land”, accommodation, infrastructure, development. "
Highlights
Moţilor Land is an ethnogeographic region of Romania located in the Apuseni Mountains, on the upper basin of the Arieș River
In order for our study to represent the situation regarding the accommodation infrastructure as accurately as possible, we completed the data obtained from the sources mentioned above with information obtained from the numerous web pages dedicated at promoting accommodation units, from the National Institute of Statistics data for Alba County and the field inquiries we completed in the period from 2005 to 2020
The Land of Moți, in particular the communes Albac, Scărişoara, Horea, Gârda and Arieşeni were included in two sets of programmes that were developed in the 1990s: the pilot villages project launched by O.V.R. (1991) that aimed to establish an inter-communal partnership among Romanian communes and foreign ones and the project coordinated by A.N.T.R.E.C. that aimed to implement the programme Phare Tourism (1993-1997)
Summary
Moţilor Land is an ethnogeographic region of Romania located in the Apuseni Mountains, on the upper basin of the Arieș River. A Study of Regional Geography”, that includes the areas of the main valleys of Abrud, Sohodol, Arieşul Mic and Arieşul Mare (upstream from Bistra), seems the most accurate and well documented. From an administrative point of view, the region covers 1068.89 km[2] of the NW part of Alba County and has a population of 38397 (2020). The only towns in the region are Câmpeni with 7375 inhabitants and Abrud with 5248. The rest of the 322 settlements are comprised in 14 communes[2]: Albac, Arieşeni, Avram Iancu, Bistra, Bucium, Ciuruleasa, Gârda de Sus, Horea, Poiana Vadului, Roşia Montană, Scărişoara, Sohodol, Vadu Moţilor and Vidra
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