TRENDS AND SEASONALITY OF OVERNIGHT STAYS IN THE TOURIST RECEPTION STRUCTURES WITH ACCOMMODATION FUNCTIONS IN ROMANIA'S CENTER REGION

Abstract

In tourism, and not only, the phenomenon of seasonality has negative influences both on the stability of the labor force and on the uniformity of the incomes of the local and regional communities. Starting from this consideration, the paper presents and analyzes the characteristics of the number of tourists' overnight stays in the reception structures with accommodation functions in the Center development area. After a regional analysis, the paper focuses on the evolution of the number of overnight stays of foreign tourists on types of reception structure with accommodation functions. The conclusions highlight, on the one hand, the increase in the phenomenon of seasonality and on the other hand the changes in the weights of the types of tourist accommodation structure in the total overnight stays of the foreign tourists during January 2010 - January 2018.

Keywords

• foreign tourist flow
• seasonality
• overnight stays