Gastronomy tourism recorded a continuous worldwide increase in recent decades, reflected both by the multitude of niche tourist offers and also by the emergence of the food websites and national and international institutions. In this context, the study aims to present the basic characteristics and importance of gastronomy tourism for local economic development, the profile of the culinary tourism consumer, as well as the evolution, the thematic map and the size of tourism flows in a few regions known as European Regions of Gastronomy, in which the actions and objectives undertaken at the local level have as main purpose the promotion of local gastronomy and traditions that increase the international tourism visibility and implicitly the local economic development.
Business and transit tourism are representative of the Galati-Brăila conurbation. Its favorable geographical location, at the eastern border of Romania and the EU, and its natural and cultural tourist potential are the main assets towards tourism development. Therefore, future tourist facilities developed by public authorities or private investors could generate a viable economic alternative for its residents. The objectives of this study were to identify residents′ perceptions, both positive and negative, concerning the impact of tourism development on tourist potential, socio-economic characteristics and the environment of the region. Another major objective was to establish the correlation between the residents′ involvement in tourism activities and tourism development in the region. In this regard, based on social exchange theory and applying the Sem-Pls method, we designed hypotheses and a research model which were verified based on a questionnaire implemented online. The data were processed using SmartPls3 software, all the research hypotheses being validated.
Depopulation is a process which affects nowadays, not only the rural areas, but also the urban ones, emphasizing the regional disparities in Romania. The study analyses the dynamics of the urban population and county capital cities in Romania during 1992-2019, but also the evolution of the balance of the changes of domicile and natural balance in the urban regions, processes that influenced directly the urban shrinkage. In the same time, the paper focuses on the dynamics of aging and population average age, considered to be the most important effects of urban depopulation. The graphic and cartographic methods were used to highlight as well as possible the results.
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