The Consolidation of Local Resources and Sustainable Development in the Rural Space of Romania through Tradition and Tourism

Abstract

The study focusses on the stage and way of capitalizing the territorial potential and also on the concentration of activities on traditional agrifood products and tourism from Romania with the purpose of identifying regions and rural communities within these which improve their resistance and consolidate the local resources thus benefiting from opportunities in their highlighting as intelligent villages. The agrifood products with local specific at the expense of the entrepreneurship concentrated more in mountainous and adjacent areas have a significant potential of developing the new and diversified economy, oriented more towards the tourism sector, otherwise sustained by the presence of natural tourist and anthropic resources from the area. Through the policy of rural development in the latest years, the financial resources have been concentrated in the mountainous space that manifest more vitality and a better capacity regarding the development of activities with specific on traditional agrifood products and tourism, especially because a great deal of mountainous space registers in the category of disadvantaged areas.