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This paper presents our strategic management approach on tourism destination with the help of the SWOT analysis. We consider that a macro-economic analysis on a region is of utmost importance for all the stakeholders implied in tourism activities: tourists, businesses, tourism agencies and professional associations, local and national governance actors, NGO’s etc. In this regard, the general objectives of this paper are: a. identifying strengths and weaknesses of these two counties which shall generate tourist des...

This paper presents an analysis of the influence of the implementation of programs under the European Social Fund on the continuous vocational training market in Romania in the post-accession period, 2007-2018. They mainly focused on continuing vocational training projects to increase human resources adaptation to the changing needs of the labor market and increase employment. After 15 years of formation of an educational market in this area, made up of thousands of private trainers, profound mutants have grown th...

Worldwide, one of the most developed industries, it is the hospitality industry that consumes a considerable amount of energy to provide quality and comfort services. The used energy in hotel units has as a major component electricity, while the share of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels is considerably lower. The amount of used electricity depends primarily on the size and nature of the hotel unit, but also on the type of customer and location. In this regard, the article addresses ecological and sustainable altern...

In the concept of sustainable development, the tourism industry has accepted the notion of sustainable tourism. To respond to the central idea underpinning sustainable development, namely to protect natural resources, the article proposes solutions for the rational management of freshwater resources. Ensuring comfort standards in tourist accommodation units involves consuming considerable amounts of water. Total water consumption can be diminished by implementing storage and use solutions of rainwater. The Romania...

The paper presents a strategic analysis of the Romania system of Long Life Learning education in tourism, in comparison with the European countries systems. The main objective is to identify the main characteristics of the system, in order to improve the national touristic services at the competitive level of the main actors from this region, our main competitors from the European countries and Northern Africa. For the strategic analysis we used the main well-known classical models: STEEP and Porter 5F for the ext...

This study analyses three important tourism firms quoted at Bucharest Stock Exchange: Casa de Bucovina- Club de Munte S.A. Gura Humorului., Bucuresti Turism S.A. Bucharest, Turism Felix S.A. BДѓile Felix. The scope is to identify which is the best to invest in. We follow the instruments give us by the fundamental analysis: Price/ Earning ratio, Capitalization, Return on Assets, Return on Equity, Debt to Assets, Dept to Equity ,Earnings per Share, Dividend Yield, Price to Book Value. Fundamental analysis presumes t...

The main objective of this paper is to highlight the new tendencies on the adventure tourism, in this regard we consolidating the basis of the specialty literature of this new market of designing and developing bike parks to be used both when practicing urban and mountainous tourism as well. In this view, this paper presents a piece of qualitative research we conducted so as to identify the tourists' needs and opinions about the importance of such bike parks in Romania and to have a marketing background for improv...

This paper focuses on developing sustainable and attractive tourism destinations under the impact of national and international future trends in tourism, of which we herein analysed the high demand of customer-tailored service packages and the continuous changes in tourists' needs for a 'totally different' tourism product. In this regard, our purpose was to identify the main revival strategies to be used for a tourism destination which lost in time its attractiveness but still preserves its potential of natural an...