Mountain tourism in Romania and its attractivness on students
: Mountain tourism in considered to be one of the most popular forms of tourism, especially among young and dynamic people. In the last years many shifts registered in terms of diversification of activities that could be developed while into the mountains. In the same time, mountains are increasingly more associated with eco tourism. There are no different typologies of tourists preferring the mountains, but people prefering mountain tourism tend to be allocentrics and interactional. Various ways of segmenting mountain tourists are discussed in the paper. The investigation is mainly dedicated in observing the tourism behavior of the Romanian students, both college and master degrees. The main dimensions investigated are: sources of information used when planning the vacation, destination selection, forms of mountain tourism preferred by students, length of travel, motives for mountain tourism, activities developed during the travel, preferences and companionship.
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