FORMS OF TOURISM ALONG THE BEGA CANAL FROM THE IOSEFIN DISTRICT FROM TIMISOARA

Abstract

Urban tourism is a form of cultural tourism, in which services are provided in urban settlements for both residents and tourists. The advantage of implementing new modern forms of tourism in the urban area is the one of the contribution to economic regeneration and job creation. This form of cultural tourism with its subtypes refers to spending free time, vacations, business in the city and visiting these items and to carry out activities in a very diverse nature such as: watching shows, visiting neighborhoods, participating in sports and leisure activities, health maintenance. Urban tourism, through the multitude of natural and anthropic resources existing in the city benefits by the action of favorable factors, including increasing interest for historical and cultural objectives, enhancing domestic and international social contacts, developing weekend and business tourism. As a result of these factors, we can speak today of an increase in the importance of urban cultural tourism with its subtypes, in the structure of tourist options, simultaneously with its diversification and in the Iosefin district from Timișoara along the banks of the Bega Canal, the city's green boulevard and resource for nautical agreement tourism or for the public transport of passengers and goods.