EVOLUTION OF THE CAPACITY AND ACCOMMODATION ACTIVITY AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL IN ROMANIA AFTER 1990

After 1990 all economic aspects saw new trends in Romania, completely different compared to the previous period based on economic centralized economy. Nowadays, we face challenges strictly related to globalization and some circumstances of economic uncertainty. The Romanian tourism faces such issues too, but it continues to be seen as a lifebuoy of the Romanian economy, in terms of a proper revaluation of its valuable inheritance and of a more aggressive and a more focused promotion on these segments of consumers that must correspond to elements offered in various tourist regions. Balanced development of tourism throughout the country contributes to economic and social growth, mitigating imbalances emerged between different areas and representing an important source for increasing population’s income. This work seeks to analyze the state of existing accommodation capacity for the eight regions of Romania in the last 22 years and to determine which are the factors that led to these developments, but also their specific effects on each region. For this purpose, we used data on accommodation capacity during 1990 - 2011, being the last official data available and we used appropriate statistical methods trying to determine the place of each region in the national assembly for every year and for the entire period. We also determined differences/advances in absolute size for a correct position of each region in terms of accommodation capacity.