VITICULTURAL POTENTIAL AND VINE TOURISM IN ROMANIA

• Main Authors: Adrian NEDELCU, Silviu COSTACHIE, Otilia MAN, Ionica SOARE
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitatii Suceava 2010-12-01
• Series: Revista de Turism: Studii si Cercetari in Turism
• Subjects: Potential of wine; Promotion of wine tourism; Wine tradition; Wine landscape; festival
• Online Access: http://revistadeturism.ro/index.php/rdt/article/view/83

Romania, a member of the International Organization of Vine and Wine in 1927, has a wine heritage of European notoriety and worldwide, privileged positions it occupies in economic statistics every year, confirm this fact. Vine are grown, especially in areas traditionally enshrined, located mainly in the hilly area, on the sands, and in other fields with favourable conditions, and disposed as an architectural viticulture landscape grouped in 8 wine regions of the assigned three growing areas of the European Union.<br />Wine tourism is on an incipient phase in Romania, compared to other countries of Europe with significant wine heritage, but it has real chances of development, sustained especially, by the potential value of wine recently indicated, once again, by the studies undertaken in order to implement reform wine sector of the European Union.