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Assessing archaeological and cultural potential is a key milestone to shaping a complex study that can impact sustainable tourism within a particular geographic area. The study aims to identify monuments capable of meeting the requirements of cultural and tourist activity through: accessibility, originality, seniority, maintenance or level of rehabilitation and promotion. The analyzed geographic area is the historical and geographical province of Romania, Dobrogea. It is a province with a great historical backgrou...

Cultural-religious tourism, as part of cultural tourism, seems to register an increase today, especially with regard to unholy/ secular monuments with a special historical load or with special architecture. This category includes the northern area of Romania, Maramures, where there are not less than 8 wooden churches in the UNESCO Heritage. Besides these there are other religious monuments. Using this monument from the touristic point of view requires an entire infrastructure. Thus, the study aims to find the nece...

Romania represents a new pole of interest of people engaged in leisure time spending within musical festivals. Thus, lately, the Romanian musical festivals have achieved significant progress, which is easy to visualize due to intense promotion and beneficial marketing, but also through the major national and international interest for the two important events that are the subject of this research. This research focuses on visualizing the main problems raised by the participants of the Untold and Neversea festivals...

The existence of material traces with special cultural value in a certain geographic area could lead to a certain profile of the locality, so as to extend the functional area after them. In our study we are making an analysis of all the locations situated along the Danube, where the traces of the ancient fortresses of antiquity and also of the medieval period prove the intense life of the past, and we are investigating to what extent they constitute today tourist attractions, or participate in the local cultural p...

Deforestation is a contemporary challenge manifested in extensive areas, requiring both quantitative analysis through established and qualitative methods by applying fractal analysis methods. Using GIS methods for processing post-processed satellite imagery, the loss area during 2000-2016 were determined and prepared as images necessary for fractal analysis. The fractal methods used were the Local Connected Fractal Dimension (LCFD), the Tug-of War Lacunarity and the Fractal Fragmentation Index (FFI). Methods that ...

The involvement of the creativity and the cultural values which are specific to the ethnicities living in the region of Oltenia, Romania, in the local economic development of the rural communities of Romania, regardless of the administrative unit they belong to, have faced, in the last years, issues of economic nature. The study of vines which comes in support of the remedy of this situation by searching solutions springing from the traditional culture and creativity of the ethnic communities. Starting from this i...

The significant growth in tourism from Romania has led to more and more complex scientific approaches on the role of this sector in the structural dynamics of the local economy. The study aims to develop analytical methodologies of the dynamic relationship between tourism and the other components of the territorial system. Quantification of complex relationship in each tourist resort from Romania was carried out through a database at the territorial administrative unit level, at NACE cod level (Classification of A...

With time, the localities within the Carpathian and Sub-Carpathian space of Romania have changed their functionality because of several historical and social events that took place. The study aims to highlight the transformations that have been observed over time, explaining the situation of the last few years and the trends that could favour the local economic situation. Thus, the research has been based on the analysis of the documents that rightfully proclaimed the establishment of the locality, on the analysis...

The migration of the population is one of the demographic phenomena causing quite large changes. Negative effects are felt especially in the areas of departure, where the aging tendency is clearly recorded. The Danube port towns in Romania, as a result of the political and administrative changes registered over the last 25 years, once with the transition from the centralized socialist economy to the free market economy, have recorded this phenomenon of population mobility, especially of the young population, in a ...

The economic pressure on the forestry fund is one of the greatest challenges of contemporary society, generating major imbalances both in the natural components of the territorial systems and in the anthropic ones. In order to quantify the evolution of the complexity of the phenomenon analysed, we have chosen for our research two methods of textural fractal analysis to determine which of the two is more relevant to the study. Textural fractal analysis is an analysis that no longer requires binarization, maintainin...

Historical literature and numerous medieval fortresses offer great premises for the development of cultural-historical tourism in Romania. Fiction tourism also fits into the general picture of tourism consumption. The phenomenon seems to lure ever more tourists that are interested in legends and myths. The tighter/closer the connection between the myth and the historical character, the stronger the attraction seems to be. The methodology of the paper is based on the determination of historical truth by a thorough ...

Each Romanian geographical region is characterized by some characteristics that can be seen as landmarks and analysed in order to assess their cultural and tourism profile. Oltenia, a historical province that dates back to the Dacian-Roman period and inhabited ever since, has a rich/vast tourism offer, with numerous cultural attractions spanning centuries/from each century. It is necessary to distinguish between the historical heritage items from different time periods ranging from the ancient Dacian, to Roman era...