Summary: | Air transport and tourism have always been interconnected, influencing each other. Over the years, as air travel
has been undergoing a series of changes, tourism organizations have also been affected, developing new tourism
products, establishing partnerships and reinventing the services offered. This paper focuses on the impact of air
travel on the tourism industry, taking into consideration the role of the airport in the regional economic
development, the new forms of tourism developed as a consequence of the different changes in the airline
industry and the recent position of air travel in the creation of tourism packages. At the same time, an analysis of
data was made in order to highlight the role of air travel in tourism development in Romania.
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