THE PLACE AND ROLE OF TOURISM IN ROMANIA’S ECONOMY

Still, at global level, tourism as an industry represents perhaps the most dynamic activity sector, the most important generator of workplaces, and a great source of recovery for the national economy. Despite the stages of conjuncture and the mutations of tourism demand, tourism services will permanently attract a continuously increasing quota of the world’s population. Thus, specialists consider that, in the global perspective, travel and tourism, together with information technology and telecommunications will be the three industries of services with the highest turnover. The author analyzes the causes of the poor impact of tourism upon the Romanian economy and sketches the main perspectives of the development directions of Romania’s tourism.