Tourism-Environment Impact Relationship on the Romanian Black Sea Coast

Abstract

Tourism-environment relationship is very important, protection and preservation of theenvironment representing the primordial way for tourism development. Thus, planning andmanagement for tourism growth is becoming essential in the context of sustainable development. Coastal areas are normally associated with mass tourism, large scale construction andinfrastructure, intensive land development and extensive urbanization ,especially in case of resorts. The present paper aims to identify the key features which may intervene in the tourist developmenton the Romanian Black Sea Coast perceived as limits, constraints and bottlenecks on the basis ofwhich tourism management decisions have to be taken. In this respect, the study will take intoconsideration the concept of tourism carrying capacity, meaning the maximum acceptable level oftourist development in an area and intend to stress out the main steps to implement this instrumentto be used in the analysis of tourist potential but also as a policy tool in a strategy of touristdevelopment for the Romanian Black Sea coast.

Keywords

• tourism
• environment
• sustainable
• development
• impact