Based on more than 25 years of research in the field of agritourism, the current work represents a pertinent, realistic and critical analysis of the main factors favourable to the implementation and development of agritourism and rural tourism in Romania. Firstly, we examined the main natural and anthropic tourist resources which constitute the country's tourist treasures, and we concluded that Romania has rich, varied and attractive tourist resources that have not been fully exploited and promoted so far. Secondly, we carried out an evaluation of Romania's implicit agritourist and tourist potential, as a future tourist destination, based on all its tourist resources and on 12 evaluation criteria. The results have shown that quality-wise, the value is high to very high, leading to the idea that Romania may satisfy to a large extent the potential clients' numerous expectations and requirements. Lastly, we carried out a SWOT analysis regarding the level of implementation, development and impact of agritourism on the Romanian rural areas during the researched period. The aforementioned SWOT analysis led to a very clear and precise conclusion. Agritourism activity, in the areas where it was implemented and developed, had a very strong and favourable impact not only on the economic and tourist framework of localities, but also on their social, cultural, spiritual and even ecological framework.
It presents the use of global navigation technology, NAVSTAR-GPS and GLONASS systems in maritime navigation and some aspects that are encountered in maritime navigation, using these systems. The use of GNSS technology in maritime navigation is beneficial and at the same time it can be used in the civil domain, the system which is eminently civil, being the Galileo European positioning system. Commercial vessels sailing on the seas and on the planetary oceans can be monitored and managed in real time, if the GNSS-type global positioning systems are used. The global positioning systems of the GNSS type include all the positioning systems, but especially those of the NAVSTAR-GPS, GLONASS, GALILELO, BEIDOU type. The advantages of using in the navigation of global positioning systems is unmatched and it makes sailing much more useful and safer on the seas and oceans of the earth. River navigation is a component of trade and water transport, which can be managed using modern means of navigation by satellite type GNSS, Romania participating with neighboring countries in different European programs. There is a brief introduction of the notion of global positioning system to the general mode and a specific appreciation of each global positioning system in part and to the general mode of GNSS global positioning systems. Important aspects are presented in the use of GNSS technology, in the maritime and related fields, the advantages of this technology in relation to the classical technologies and the judicious cooperation in the extreme cases between the two technologies. The sources of positioning errors in the use of global GNSS positioning systems and the methods by which they can be eliminated or reduced are presented. It presents the calculation of the navigation coordinates in different projection systems and the stages of transformation of the coordinates in the WGS-84 system, specific to the Navstar-GPS positioning system in different coordinate and projection systems. Maritime navigation is guided by specific methods, but lately, global positioning systems are a beneficial presence in the steering and navigation component of the world’s seas and oceans. Finally, conclusions and proposals regarding the judicious and beneficial use of the GNSS positioning system in navigation are presented.
The paper is the result of research conducted for approximately 20 years in the agro tourism field and also rural tourism, as well as in natural and cultivated pastures, at the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, University of Craiova. Based on these studies it was concluded that the research in this field has been less realistic so far, because it was strictly oriented towards obtaining high forage production, but of questionable quality due to high content of residual chemicals. Currently, in tourism activities and other specific areas of food production, the demand for natural products (bio or eco) has greatly increased to ensure a quality taste and high security and traceability. To assist the forage manufacturers and workers in tourism activity we considered appropriate and necessary to study this particularly valuable forage, to which by applying minimal chemical treatments, high yields with a very low degree of chemical residues will be obtained, with a high nutritional quality and traceability, while a cuisine with higher value taste and food safety can be obtained.
The research focuses on the assessment of the main agro-productive properties and the evolution of the mollic reddish (red-brown) preluvisol between the Jiu and Olt rivers, under the new conditions of soil formation and exploitation, created after radical transformations in Romanian agriculture, when most of the lands were passed from state to private ownership. The first comparative analysis of the properties of the soil that evolved on the terrains utilized for crop culture on farms and agritourist households, with soil that evolved forest vegetation, attests to the impact of the anthropic factor-intense modification in the morphological, physical and chemical (deeper profile due to the eluviation-illuviation process, compaction and sealing of lower horizons and an irreversible decrease in natural fertility). The second analysis, of the soil utilized for crop culture, reveals that the morphology, contents, architecture, physical, hydric indicators and chemical proprieties have not undergone any positive or negative modification in a period of 23 years. Relevant for the farms and agritourist households that practice touristic activities is the presence and concertation of heavy metals. The identified heavy metals do not pose any threat to plants or humans, as their concentration does not exceed the normal permitted values, except for chromium, which is still well below the alert threshold. Current conditions enable the mollic reddish preluvisol to support an ecologically based agricultural production, thus ensuring the safety and traceability of the agrifoods offered to tourists.
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