Adina Claudia Neamtu

Strategic Approach of Tourism: a Regional Model - Romania, Oltenia Under Mountain Adina Claudia Neamtu

Development of tourism as an economic branch meets all requirements of sustainable development given that can be touched all three pillars of this type of development: economic development, social development, environmental protection. To achieve sustainable development, it is necessary to initiate and support a strategy with concrete actions, summarized in specific and measurable objectives. This book, therefore, provides a long term strategy model for integrated development of a touristic region. Sustainable development of tourism requires long-term measures, and complex implementation techniques: establishing an integrated strategy serving to identification of business portfolio; approval of tourism development policies at national level and at each regional level; planning and development programming for about five years period, containing programs and development projects with the necessary actions (generally known as tourism action programs).