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It is known that the information acquired before the journey is essential for building visitor expectations and behavior. With its increasing role as information and communication tool, internet has become a key factor for destination image formation. Specialized travel websites in particular have a major contribution to building and communicating destination image, especially those with user generated content. Perceived as more objective, personal visitor experiences shared online are much more convincing and inf...

During the last decades one can notice a positive effect of tourism activities in rural or remote areas, tourism managing to induce economic development in peripheral spaces where primary activities like agriculture, low industry or craftsmanship were not economic profitable anymore. Positive role of tourism activities in rural areas can be translated into different ways, like the increase of well-being, stabilization of population in exodus localities, bigger resistance towards financial crisis, and even a growth...

The eastern part of Europe is the new actor of the international tourism market. Entered in the circuit shortly after the democratic revolutions from the late †80s and the beginning of the †90s, this space has a higher tourism growth than any other region of Europe, according to World Tourism Organization. However, little is known about the factors that triggered this fluxes (essentially domestic), given the fact that most of the regions in this part of the continent are predominantly rural. The aim of this pa...