TOURISM COMPANIES AND PROFITABILITY

Abstract

Recently included among the consumption needs of the modern man, measured as an indicator of the quality of life, tourism deserves the importance attached to it today by the culture people from all fields of knowledge. The infinity of interdependences in the world economy and the current technique, which by compressing the space and time approaches civilizations and people and creates for tourism a more complex function than the one mentioned namely the mediator of mankind access to the treasure of civilization and humanity beauty . Tourism is an economic and social phenomenon of the modern civilization, rooted in society, and as such it is in a relationship of interdependence with it. The research on tourism phenomenon integrates a broad thematic area, from defining its place in the development strategy to highlighting the determinants, the development fluctuations and the manifestation forms of coordinates and market mechanisms and evaluating its impact on economic, social, cultural, environmental and political area. We should not overlook the fact that tourism has become nowadays a task as important as the activity from other key sectors of the global economy (industry, agriculture, trade). The tourism phenomenon is extremely difficult to be delimited because, like any human activity, it falls within the scope of interdisciplinary study, involving both economists, geographers, psychologists and sociologists.

Keywords

• profitability
• romanian tourism
• profitability forms