Traditional professions+ elements of tourist integrated development in rural areas

Puiu Nistoreanu (), Liliana Nicodim () and T?nase Mihai Ovidiu
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Liliana Nicodim: University Constanta, Romania

The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal, 2009, vol. 11, issue 25, 61-68

Abstract: Integrated development seen at the level of local community assumes a global approach of all influence factors over these on the one hand, but also the evolution of these in time on another hand. In these conditions there must be taken in consideration a series of aspects as: economic activities, local community and environment protection. The purpose of this paper is to analyze traditional trades/professions from rural areas in order to surprise these interconnections with environmental factors, economic aspects and local community. Traditional trades can be looked at from many points of view. First of them and the oldest one is the economic point of view. Employed populations in traditional fields are insuring a source of income and contribute to a raise of local wellbeing. The second aspect is bound by the attraction possibility of tourists in the area through the angle of these original activities, which are ever rarer due to the economic progress and competition. A third aspect, under which we are going to follow the trades, is referring to the development of the feeling of pride and community belonging, the maintaining of youth in the locality, at valuating the customs and folk traditions as a first step towards the perpetuation of these in the future. Last but not least we will analyze the connections between traditional trades and the natural framework as well as the impact of the above mentioned on the environment.

Keywords: integrated tourism; local community; rural; traditional handicrafts; customs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 O21 Q56 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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