| Summary: | Recently included among the consumption needs of the modern man, measured as an indicator
of the quality of life, tourism deserves the importance attached to it today by the culture people from all fields of
knowledge. The infinity of interdependences in the world economy and the current technique, which by compressing
the space and time approaches civilizations and people and creates for tourism a more complex function than the
one mentioned namely the mediator of mankind access to the treasure of civilization and humanity beauty . Tourism
is an economic and social phenomenon of the modern civilization, rooted in society, and as such it is in a
relationship of interdependence with it.
The research on tourism phenomenon integrates a broad thematic area, from defining its place in the
development strategy to highlighting the determinants, the development fluctuations and the manifestation forms
of coordinates and market mechanisms and evaluating its impact on economic, social, cultural, environmental and
political area.
We should not overlook the fact that tourism has become nowadays a task as important as the activity from
other key sectors of the global economy (industry, agriculture, trade). The tourism phenomenon is extremely difficult
to be delimited because, like any human activity, it falls within the scope of interdisciplinary study, involving both
economists, geographers, psychologists and sociologists.
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