THE EVOLUTION IN ENTREPRENEURIAL DIMENSIONS IN TOURISM IN ROMANIA

Abstract

Tourism is a sector that encourages the creation of new enterprises in order to receive tourists, resulting in the development of other sectors. Small and medium enterprises from tourism sector generate significant revenues that contribute to higher levels of development of the local community. Adapting to the competitive environment - in an increasingly turbulent environment - requires more flexibility from managers. External environment acts on several categories of influencing factors: political and legal factors, economic factors, socio-cultural factors and technological factors. Detailed knowledge of all these factors on firm action is particularly useful beause it helps managers to understand and explain the decisions and behaviors they noted in the company they manage and it allows a detailed study of the constantly changing relationship between the firm and its external environment. This paper analyses the changes in the size of enterprises in the field of hotels and restaurants in Romania between 2008 and 2015. The research is based on statistical data taken from the website of the National Statistical Institute. In order to highlight the changes that occurred, we presented data in the form of tables and graphs and calculating statistical indicators.

Keywords

• active enterprises
• class size
• legal form