ASTROTOURISM - MODERN FORM OF TOURISM

Loredana Văduva, Cipriana Sava, Cornelia Petroman, Diana Marin, Ioan Petroman

Abstract


Astrotourism is a niche form of classical tourism that consists in contemplating special places characterized by special effects, using as resources for this type of tourism: educational astronomical centers, astrotourism centers, astronomical institutes and laboratories, astronomical museums, space museums, astronomical observatories, planetariums, archeo-astronomical sites.


Keywords


resources; astronomical tourism; forms

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