Interdependenta dintre activitatile turistice si factori climatici
THE INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN TOURISTIC ACTIVITIES AND CLIMATIC FACTORS
Author(s): Ionuţ Cosmin BăloiSubject(s): Economy
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: comfort index; climatic models; tourist flow; climate-sensitivity
Summary/Abstract: Most tourists spend there holydays under the sun raises, pleasant raises but not too hot. Fashionable destinations are on the verge of becoming too hot and avoidable and those destinations which today are very cold will increase their popularity. Almost 10% of the income is spent on recreation and tourism. The climatic changes will not influence the sum spent but the places, the destinations were these will be made. The incomes from tourism are, for some regions, the most important sources and their lost could determine a big economic problem. There is an obvious sensibility of the tourist’s behavior concerning the changes which affect the environment in which they spend their time. We analyze in this paper the psychological and physiological impact of the climate on tourists by adapting Romania’s climatic particularities to the models applied in the western literature recently preoccupied with this extremely sensitive interferences. The data we use in this paper is offered by the Meteorological Region Center of Oltenia.
Journal: Analele Universităţii din Craiova - Seria Ştiinţe Economice
- Issue Year: XXXVI/2008
- Issue No: 6
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English