In Romania, the transition to a market economy led to restructuring in all fields, triggering multiple socio-economic implications, political and cultural. The stress of urban life has increased, there was a high degree of urbanization and environmental pollution and reduced working week. These changes have affected tourism, holiday destinations for changes to pro-active, run in nature, with positive implications and deep rural tourism activity. Temporary return to nature, the simple way of life, is a motivation for all age groups, sex, socio-professional, representing the result of the tendency of conservation, health, physical and spiritual. Valences rural environment is a big advantage that reaches more profound connotations due to context menus in the current social and economic life at national and international level. These arguments are studying the circumstances prevailing trends in rural tourism activity in Romania, which are described and analyzed in this paper based on the data taken from TEMPO database of the National Institute of Statistics.
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To Cite this Article: Cofas, E. (2014). Models for the Statistical Analysis of Trends in Rural Tourism Activity in Romania. International Journal of Academic Research in Enviornment & Geography, 1(2), 23–34.
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