The Ecotourism - Element of the Sustainable Development of the Local Rural local Communities
Author:Conf. univ. dr. Puiu Nistoreanu
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Keywords:Paradigm;
Ecotourism;
Local community;
Sustainable development;
European integration.
Abstract:
The local rural communities of Romania
have been affected by the evolution of the history in
the last decades. To these there have been added the
years of centralised economy and afterwards the
transition towards the market economy. All of these
have put the inhabitants of the villages between the
temptations/obligations of leaving for the urban
settlings, in many cases this leads to the
phenomenon of uprooting. The last fifteen years
have put the village back in the centre of many of
the politicians, theorists and practicians
preoccupations. The enlarged Europe also rises
problems and question marks in regards to the
economic and social development of the local
communities in the Romanian rural environment.
These uncertainties appear in a period in which we
are more and more convinced of the necessity of the
sustainable development, of the perpetuation of the
responsible economic development, which would
insure the satisfaction of society’s needs without
endangering the future generations. Those presented
are accompanied by a more and more accentuated
tendency of the civilised world of living in good
terms with the environment, of spending more time
in nature, of being closer to all which is clean, alive
and quiet. The number of those that ask for holidays
in nature, in the rural environment is growing all
over the globe. The soft tourism, in the countryside
or in the middle of nature is more and more desired
by the rich, but stressed people eager to return to the
nature, to the life of the rural communities. All these
forms of tourism are called ecotourism, and their
development in Romania is only beginning. These
activities play an important part in the economic
development of the rural areas, which will further
reflect upon their future evolution. A
multidisciplinary research of this problem, combines
economic, social objectives and those sustainable
development of the Romanian rural communities.