After the year 1989 Romanian tourism has grown chaotic and failed to have any link to the concept and sustainable development principles. Sustainability, in general, and the tourism sustainability, especially, combine different aspects – economic, social, environmental etc. in a harmonious...

Essential component of the global economy, tourism industry is in a strong interdependent relationship both with other sectors, as well as with different qualitative components– competitiveness, socio-human and environment issues. Result of the specificity of services, touristic consumption,...

Good for the stomach, but excellent also for business, gastronomic tourism has flourished greatly in the previous year’s having an adventurous and exotic side, but at the same time allowing direct contact with the cuisine of a country and a healthy "serving" conditions as it really is and not...

The Black Sea region is an area of high importance, both geopolitically and economically. In terms of socio-human and tourism resources, the region is characterized by a high degree of heterogenity; this generates a special interest for tourists around the world. If on the social and...

The tourism industry has known a sustained growth in recent decades, this sector taking advantage of the capacity to generate added value regardless of the type of capital input. The impact of tourism on the economy is indisputable, but the efficiency and the competitiveness provide a...

In the past 20 years, both locally and at national and regional interest in sustainable development has been increasing. Sustainable development is associated with quality of life, such that economy-environment-human relationship is the focus. Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU in 2007 and their...

According to international experts, a country’s demand for metals follows its GDP per capita trend. Taking into consideration China’s position as the main consumer of metals worldwide and the corollary that its demand will keep on increasing at least until its GDP per capital level doubles...

The current level of trade and investment flows between the EU and Indonesia, ASEAN’s largest economy, does not represent a real proof of the bilateral relations strategic nature. The objective of our paper resides in the substantiation of the relevance of this relationship for each of the two...

In the present paper we aim to emphasize several aspects of the economic integration realized through the channel of trade, from a double perspective. The first point of view is given by the formal framework, de jure, composed by the multitude of preferential trade agreements, while the second...

In the present case study, our main objective is to bring to the forefront the main factors that led to the double-dip recession of the Cypriot economy. We analyze determinants such as “tax haven” status, interlinks with the Greek economy, spillovers originating in the Euro Area as a whole...