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For Romania, business tourism represents a particularly important opportunity and direction of development. It is one of the tourism types that have thrived significantly during the last decennia, being favored by the social, economic and political context. This paper aims to evaluate today's stage of this type of tourism by means of an analysis based on the main tourism traffic indexes and on the expenses made in this sense, all being synthesized from the perspective of the specific tourism forms that circumscribe it or that it generates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alpine areas, fragile par excellence, would benefit rather from an integrated, balanced development, than from an artificial "conflict" between their environment and their economic development, between their traditions and their economic development or between the latter and their historical dimension. The true challenge for the fragile alpine areas in Romania is generated by their difficult geographic conditions, which trigger high costs and supplementary difficulties in terms of territorial renewal. The Bran-Rucar Corridor is incontestably endowed with treasures in terms of natural and architectural patrimony, cultural heritage or gastronomy, and therefore it could become a major touristic destination in Romania. However, the absence of a voluntaristic, well-coordinated policy, of a Master Plan, could slow down its development. The risk of a rapid degradation of the environment and of an irreversible rural fall should also be considered. The Bran-Rucar Regional Park is the answer proposed regarding the present and future stakes of this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Plain of Titu, situated at the passage between the Plain of Târgovişte, in the north, and Vlăsiei Plain, in the south, on the lower courses of Argeş and Dâmboviţa River, represents a subsidence plain, with distinct natural and economic features, reflected in the toponymy of this geographic unit. Thus, we find numerous toponyms coming from the vegetation (phytonyms), from waters (hydronyms), from the pricipal forms of relief (oronyms), and sometimes even from the lithological makeup of the land, which reflects as faithfully as possible the vegetation type, dominated by hydrophilic and hygrophilic species (Zăvoiu, Plopu, Sălcioara, Trestieni etc), the excess of humidity given by the underground water-bearing structures or the precipitations (Puţu cu Salcie, Baiu, Hleşteu, Bălteni etc.), the monotonous relief, which includes numerous dry valleys, depressions and hills (La Podişoru, Valea Seacă, Valea Moartă) and certain soil features (La Năsprişte). An analysis, albeit brief, of these toponyms, denotes the very interesting way the population understood to describe the natural conditions of this geographic unit, by attributing specific names to each place, very well-defined names, with precise meanings, sometimes even with a qualitative sense (Izvoru Negru / The Black Spring). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The tourism potential in the Romanian sector of the Danube is higher at its extremities (the gorge area and the Danube Delta), where the natural tourism potential is predominant, and it is lower in the rest of the territory, where the anthropic tourism potential is predominant (in port-cities). The capitalization of the tourist potential of the port-cities and the Danube Valley is generally modest at present. The tourist infrastructure is poorly represented in most cases, being old both physically and morally. What is even more important is that it is not adapted to the specificity of the area - the accommodation, the food and especially the leisure units hardly capitalize or, better said, fail to suggest the uniqueness of the area where they are located. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]