Dezvoltarea localităţilor rurale din zonele montane ale României, prin valorificarea eficientă a potenţialului agroturistic

Abstract

Turning the resources of the Romanian mountain villages into account can be done by organizing various fairs, festivals, contensts that will complete the favorable image of the villages. Still, the rural tourism/agri tourism remains the main and the most important way for turning these resources into account. They make a contribution to introducing some diversified natural conditions into the domestic and foreign tourism circuit and to turning the entire thesaurus of traditional and contemporary culture into account. Among the attractive anthropic events the most important are: occupations and crafts; costumes, dances and popular songs; traditional holidays; architecture and peasant technical installations; human settlements. This vast activity is based on three inter-dependent elements: attraction to the natural beauties, to ethnography, novelty, charma ND events specific to the rural life; accommodation and meals, even though they are not at the hotels standards, must be of high quality and offered with hospitality; transportation, access ways to the rural area are vital for ensuring a continuous flow of tourists. Turning the novelty of the Romanian village and its “geographical personality” into account” leaves a mark on recovering and revitalizing the local activities, objective achieved by: Reactivating crafts and developing the services in a diversified range, which will ensure an occupational balance and a strengthening of jobs; Stimulating alternative activities generating supplementary incomes (rural tourism, agri-tourism); Promoting and stimulating local economies which process food and non-food products; Organizing the production structures and the structures for processing; Organizing the associations, in a diversified range ; family micro-production farms, professional associations, etc.. Establishing local institutional structures and partnership between the public and private institutions; The promoted legislation should comprise the real problems of the rural environment, including the social protection.