STUDY REGARDING THE ROMANIAN RURAL TOURISM FINANCING AND DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

• Main Authors: Nicolae BALTEŞ, Alina-Teodora CIUHUREANU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitatii Suceava 2009-06-01
• Series: Revista de Turism: Studii si Cercetari in Turism
• Subjects: boarding houses; financial grants; rural tourism; sapard; travel services
• Online Access: http://revistadeturism.ro/rdt/article/view/108

<span>Rural tourism and agricultural tourism are activities, which generate alternative incomes, a fact that offers development possibilities to the rural space, due to the unique landscapes, large semi-natural areas, the inhabitants' born hospitality in the rural surroundings. From this perspective, a modernization, development and innovation process for the Romanian rural tourism is required. All these aspects, however, require financing. Therefore, a pre-accession financing source of the rural tourism was the SAPARD programme, a programme which "offered the opportunity" to many business people to start their business in this field. The paper shows the evolution of the rural boarding houses between 2003-2007, with analyses on the number, type of financing, development region.</span>