PERCEPTION OF THE ROMANIAN TOURIST OFFER IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISM FLOWS

Abstract

Currently,at worldwide level, there is a strong crisis between the environment created by man and the natural world, a crisis that has materialized in the continuous degradation of the natural environment, the only alternative in overcoming it is being the realization of a viable, sustainable human society, based on the compatibility of the environment created by man with the natural one, as well as the creation of regulations that meet the requirements of ensuring the ecological balance in the conditions of the human society, both economically and culturally or politically. Starting from the aspect above, we find that in the early 1980s, the entreprenours from tourism based on natural resources began to prosper all over the world, allong with the growing interest for the environment and for outdoor travel. Today, tourism is a huge, global market where is manifest the consumers demand for a huge variety of products and services. Not only its size and rhythm of growth make this market very attractive, but also its future potential, not at all exhausted. The implications of the tourism development and the efficient use of tourism resources and of other related resources are known, the purpose of the paper being to identify the main tourist basins, as well as aspects related to the European tourist activity or the perception of the Romanian tourist offer on the international market.