THE IMPACT OF THE HOLIDAY VOUCHERS MECHANISM IMPLEMENTATION IN THE PUBLIC SYSTEM IN ROMANIA

Abstract

In Romania, the holiday vouchers mechanism has recently become operational in the public system, representing an important measure of the Government, implemented as a form of support for the benefit of the domestic tourism industry and the general public interest, for reasons such as: increasing the employment and keeping the labor force in the country, diminishing or even stopping the exodus of the labor force from the field of tourism to other states in the country's relative neighborhood, stimulating the tourism sector, motivating the employees in the budgetary sector and also recovering and maintaining their work capacity and increasing their productivity. In the described context, we believe that the study of the holiday vouchers mechanism implementation in the public system in our country becomes a current and a very interesting debate topic. The paper presents a variety of issues concerning the holiday vouchers mechanism, among which: conceptual approaches, a legislative evolutionary analysis that highlights the moments that marked changes and transformations in the field, the steps of the specific mechanism, the involved parties categories and also an analysis of the demarche’s impact at national level, achieved by following the evolution of certain specific indicators. The impact analysis was carried out by centralizing and processing the data disseminated especially by the National Institute of Statistics and the National Association of Travel Agencies in Romania, the results being interpreted and offering considerations rich in pragmatic potential regarding their significance.

Keywords

• holiday vouchers
• value tickets
• domestic tourism