New Perspectives and Development Oportunities of Central and Eastern European Tourism

• Main Author: Smaranda Cosma
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest 2020-05-01
• Series: Amfiteatru Economic
• Subjects: boom review
• Online Access: https://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/temp/Article_2916.pdf
• ISSN: 1582-9146; 2247-9104

At present, world has become an open space. Tourism is a global industry, par excellence, with an expanding market where the players resize forces while considering new trends. Tourism industry is seen as one of the most profitable and dynamic industries at world level. A wide and heterogeneous range of stakeholders revolve around it. Tourism industry decisively puts its stamp on world economy, providing 319 million jobs (one out of ten) and generating 10.4% of the global GDP (WTTC, 2020). Subjected to both market laws demands and constraints, defined by deep complexity and dominated by competition, tourism industry undergoes a permanent, complex and intense process of extension, enrichment and diversification. The high-speed and synergic interaction between technology and tourism has brought fundamental changes in industry and in our perceptions regarding its nature. In the context of an extremely dynamic and complex world, the book entitled New Trends and Opportunities for Central and Eastern European Tourism brings forward the opportunities set up by the new touristic markets. The field in question is not only very upto-date, but it also induces the interest of both theorists and practitioners related to tourism industry. Starting from the belief the tourism science cannot be understood and even more, cannot be learnt otherwise than by being permanently concerned to know and adapt to the novelties of the field, the authors focus upon concepts and scientifically-based situations, upon good practice instances and representative case studies to study in-depth the theoretical and applicative side of tourism in Central and Eastern Europe