Romanian Winter Sports Destinations In A Sustainable Development Context

Vasile Glavan (), Monica Nicoleta Neacsu () and Nicolae Neacsu ()

Knowledge Horizons - Economics, 2016, vol. 8, issue 4, 37-43

Abstract: During the past decades, winter sports tourism developed by planning and equipping mountain massifs for alpine skiing, snowboarding, sleighing etc.. Facilities were made, especially in the alpine area (with a fragile natural balance), in disregard to urbanism and environmental protection laws (e.g. the construction of roads in natural parks – for tourism ?!; clumps of secondary residences built without preliminary urban planning; real estate speculations and intensive allotments; elimination of agro-pastoral economic activities; lack of involvement of local population in the field of mountain tourism etc.). Thus, for a sustainable economic and environmental development in the Romanian mountainous and sub-mountainous areas, the paper presents a series of proposals aimed at leading towards a new vision in planning winter sports in Romania through the development of accommodation and recreation facilities at the foothills of the mountains and the promotion of agro-tourism in the mountainous and submountainous areas. The authors„ suggestions include: limiting or avoiding estate and leisure facilities in alpine and high mountainous area; economic and tourism revival of villages in the mountainous and sub-mountainous areas (agro-tourism) by taking over accommodation, catering and after-ski recreation facilities; the development of nonresidential ski areas and ski centers for week-end and youth tourism; revitalization of agro-pastoral activities etc..

Keywords: winter sports destination; economic and environmental sustainability; mountainous and submountainous agrotourism; non-residential ski areas, ski centers; optimal functionality; public private partnership; modernization, development; Romania. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q26 Q50 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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