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The current tourist flow study is part of a series of several tourist-related research on the rural region of the Oradea Metropolitan Area. The research analyzes the tourist flow in the rural OMA compared to Bihor County. Thus, the annual tourist flow quantitative and qualitative indicators in the area of the rural OMA and Bihor County for the period 2001-2020 were analyzed referring to tourist arrivals, overnight stays, average length of stay, tourist flow density and seasonality. The secondary data were collected from annual statistic registries of the Romanian National Institute of Stastistics, stored, processed and analyzed under the form of maps, graphs and tables as well as adjoining interpretations through the GIS mapping program and statistical analysis programs.The analysis revealed that the hotspot of tourist consumption in the rural Metropolitan Area of Oradea (i.e. OMA) and Bihor County is represented by Băile Felix and 1 Mai spas which draw the largest share of all OMA tourists of 93.2% and 48.3% of Bihor County for the analyzed period 2001-2020 for its thermal cure factors. It reveals an overtourism consumption in a single commune vresus its other counterparts. The length of stay in the rural OMA amounts to six days, the high season being from May to October with a peak in August. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Metropolitan regions/areas are NUTS 3 regions or a combination of NUTS 3 regions which represent all agglomerations of at least 250,000 inhabitants (Eurostat, 2021). Oradea Metropolitan Area (NUTS3ID RO111) was established in 9th of May 2005 and has a total number of 251.570 inhabitants. The purpose of the association is to stimulate and support the growth and prosperity of the area, focused on the continuous increase of the quality of life. Besides the economic boost, OMA emerged from the need for space and leisure expressed by the core urbanites and although the periurban area is teeming with valuable cultural resources, the latter being the focus of the current study, they are little known by many of the Oradea residents. In this purpose the cultural attractions of the rural OMA were inventoried, analysed and stored in an online openaccess database so that tourists can enjoy them and entrepreneurs in tourism can use them as focal points for further tourist infrastructure development. The analysis highlighted the OMA periurban area with the highest cultural attractions' potential based on the National Methodology regarding the evaluation of the tourist potential in the basic administrative-territorial units. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current study is meant to be a contribution to the promotion and development of an important geographical area for the municipality of Oradea, namely the rural proximity area that is part of the Oradea Metropolitan Area (OMA). The magnitude of the tourism phenomenon, as a sustainable resource could contribute to a functional reconsideration of this space that can bring about an overall territorial development, based on economic competitiveness, sustainable development, social cohesion or the development of new technologies. In this sense, it is not possible to conceive the development of an area from a tourist viewpoint without the existence of a suitable infrastructure (tourist, technical, transport), because it can influence, depending on the endowment degree and updated technology, the volume and structure of the tourist traffic. Thus, the main infrastructure components were identified, quantified and analyzed, each TAU being granted a certain score according to the evaluation methodology, based on which a certain hierarchy and highlighting of the main dysfunctions could be achieved. In conclusion, it was found that the existing tourist and technical infrastructure is satisfactory, but disproportionately distributed, a situation somewhat accountable due of the existence of the two spas, Băile Felix and Băile 1 Mai. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Starting from one of the main objectives of constitution of Oradea Metropolitan Area (O.M.A.) namely to ensure the continuous increase of live quality, the aim of the study is the highlight and analysis of high value natural resources, natural reserves and Natura 2000 sites and also to ensure the quality of environmental factors for the touristic use. The importance of protection and conservation of some natural elements also results from the fact that the surface of natural reserves within O.M.A. increases from 6.25% of overall surface of natural reserves of Bihor county, prior the integration in the E.U., to 24.3% after the European integration, after the implementation of Natura 2000 ecological network. One can identify nine Natura 2000 sites within O.M.A., which includes two SPA and seven SCI sites. The analysis of the environmental factors (air, surface and underground waters) shows that the physical and chemical parameters are within the legal range without threatening the communities and the natural resources with touristic potential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past 15 years, the periurban area in the proximity of Oradea has been accredited as a place of great attraction for the urbanites eager to move to the countryside, taking advantage of the natural resources, numerically generous and possessing an ecological quality. On such a background, these urbanites or tourists have come into contact and continue to discover these natural resources from the point of view of their new qualities, namely people motivated to do thematic tourism. This study seeks to know in detail the potential of the 11 communes and their related villages in the Oradea Metropolitan Area (OMA) and what they provide for weekend-type activities or forms of tourism based on discovery and leisure. The researched area has various natural resources, but diversity is configured according to the environment and morpho-hydrography specific for the hilly, plain and hilly-plain contact area relief. The inventory of local resources (8 categories) prone to nature-based tourism is dominated by protected areas, rivers and lakes for fishing, deciduous forests and associated hay fields as well as the hilly relief in the eastern part of the area. The expression of the attractiveness of local nature for leisure tourism is given by the attractiveness index, which at the OMA level is 87.47 points, with an encouraging maximum of 11.67 points (out of a maximum of 25 points). The detail of the distribution and the natural resources attraction weight can be found in the four thematic maps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. Both sedentary lifestyles, through the complications it favors (muscle hypotrophy, obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes), as well as respiratory diseases reduce the effort capacity, which we can evaluate by the walking test, introduced in 1960 by Kenneth H. Cooper. Material and method. We evaluated 20 patients, divided into 2 groups: 10 patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis, stage II-III, respectively 10 sedentary patients, with degenerative pathology stage I-II who underwent outpatient treatment in the Clinical Hospital "Avram Iancu" Oradea, for a period for 10 days. For the evaluation of the exercise training we used the 6 minutes test and the Borg scale applied before and after the treatment. They were measured: BP, HR, SaO2, distance traveled and degree of dyspnea. The patients followed a recovery program, each 40 minutes / day, 10 days and as a method of increasing the training to the effort we used the field treatment 4 km / h 30 minutes, daily. Results. The mean age of the patients in the first group was 52.2 years, of the second group 54.3 years. The average of the evaluated parameters are presented in the table below. Conclusions. The average distance traveled by sedentary patients increases by 10%, and in the group with COPD the distance increases by 8%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]