COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STATISTICAL DATA ON TOURIST ACCOMMODATION IN ROMANIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

Abstract

Tourism is an important economic activity with a rapidly social, cultural and environmental evolving. Tourism plays a crucial role in generating wealth and jobs and its importance and impact is growing on other policy areas - from regional policy, diversification of rural economies, maritime policy, employment, sustainability and competitiveness to social policy and inclusion. This article presents an overview of statistics for the accommodation services sector in Romania, year 2014, compared to previous years and other EU countries. There are presented data about number of nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments and tourists travelling abroad in Romania compared to EU countries, top EU destinations, difficulties why foreign tourists run away from Romania and reasons why foreign tourists no longer visit our country.