CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS REGARDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL TOURISM

Abstract

Tourism is an economic and social phenomenon of modern civilisation, strongly rooted in the life of society and, as such, in an inter-conditional relationship with it. Therefore, the trends recorded in the development of the world economy, positive, as expressed by the increase in production and, on this basis, general prosperity, the intensification of international trade, the expansion of cooperation between countries, and industrialisation. Negative factors, such as crises or periods of economic recession, the spread of poverty and unemployment, inflation and environmental degradation, have had a quantitative and structural impact on tourism, stimulating travel and diversifying its spatial orientation.