Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series (Jan 2019)
Balneary Tourism Management in Turkey - Comparative Analysis
Abstract
Nowadays, the tourism is a significant and remarkable economic branch. The increase in volume and the complexity of the touristic service offer have generated a true industry of the journeys and tourism, which justifies treating the touristic phenomenon as a distinctive branch of the national economy which is in full development, being a component of the tertiary sector. In this way there is a concern to define the concept in a more complete form. Tourism is a phenomenon characteristic to the modern civilization, influenced by its evolution. It fulfils the needs of all client categories. Also, through its mass character and complex content, tourism trains a vast material and human potential, with important implications upon the evolution of the economy and society, upon the national and international interhuman relations. As a result, tourism represents a true business, contributing to the employed work force and the gross world product. The balneary tourism, as an integrated branch of tourism, its extremely important, given that it’s based on natural resources, given that it is based on natural resources, from which not every country benefit from. So, owning some natural resources constitutes a true treasure that needs to be treasured and simultaneously valued through adopting a total management. We have chosen this theme in order to highlight the differences between the approach of balneary tourism by two countries: Turkey and Romania.