Studies concerning possibility account regarding the rural tourism and the equestrian tourism development in romania.

Scientific Papers Series Management , Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development

Vol.11, Issue 3, 2011

ISSN 1844-5640

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STUDIES CONCERNING POSSIBILITY ACCOUNT REGARDING THE

RURAL TOURISM AND THE EQUESTRIAN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

IN ROMANIA

Petrică ŞTEFAN 1

, Matei-Agathon DAN 2

, Dragoş RĂDUCAN 3

1 University Of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, No. 59, Blvd. Marasti, 011464,

Bucharest, Romania, (+49) 021/2242815, 0723554321, [email protected].

2 Employers Confederation of Industry of Romania CONPIROM, No. 48, Calea Victoriei, sect.

1, 010063, Bucharest, Romania, (+49) 021/3266089, [email protected]

3 Magest Tourism, No 4, Blvd. Dimitrie Cantemir, Bucharest, Romania, Tel: 021-336.70.04,

0744.544.056, Fax: 021-336.70.05, www.magest.ro

Corresponding author: [email protected].

Abstract

Equestrian tourism represent a combination of rural tourism, agro tourism and ecotourism, which it has been

improved with success in many European countries and I hope as in future it will be improve in Romania too. From

my studies, which I have done arise that in some areas from countryside there is potential for the improvement of

equestrian tourism in: Bucovina, Transylvania, Calarasi and the littoral of the Black Sea. The present project

proposes to promote and to develop the equestrian practice in this areas, but also in others areas less known by

tourists.

Keywords: Equestrian Tourism, Rural Tourism, Agro tourism, Ecotourism

INTRODUCTION

In Romania was a moment, after the

revolution from 1989, when the destiny of the

breed horses became dramatically. The old

farms of breeding horses have been liquidated

and the valuable horses got into the custody of

a small local baron or they took the way of

Italy and they have been transformed in

salami.

The critical moment was surpassed and,

today, we are taking part to an increase and

training refreshing activities in some budget

and private centers from Romania.

I chose as theme of project “equestrian

tourism” because I consider that this subject

has not been explored in doctrine and in

application [4].

MATERIAL AND METHODS

Despite numerous attempts to develop

methods to assess the tourism potential of a

territory held by the literature, the degree of

relativity of the results is often pronounced.

The main drawback derives from the

difficulty of quantitative assessment of

qualitative expressions, respectively attractive

or unusual exercise of different objectives or

views on the visitor's interest, note the bias

(characteristic of the human individual, so

different from one individual to another,

according to age, sex, level of culture,

behavior, etc..) signing on a very wide

spacing of each tourist options [Cocean,

1999]. Add to this the complexity of the

typology of tourist resources, which prints a

relatively any action that aims intrinsic

appreciation of their attractiveness. As a

result, it is necessary to complement them

with information on the particular application

of interest.

Edward A. Bergman (1996) believes that the

tourism potential of an area, region depends

on the three "A's":

Attractions (Attraction) - components of

natural and human potential with attractive

value;

Accessibility (accessibility) - accessibility of