Abstract:
In this stage, agriculture can’t limit only to providing food to a
population becoming more and urbanized, but must also contribute to the
maintenance of the countryside, which represents the indispensable support
of rural tourism. Rural tourism includes both tourism activity as such, and
economic activity, usually agriculture, practiced by hosts (production
activities of farm product processing and marketing them to tourists or
through business networks), and the way of spending free time. Agro-tourism
is a limitary concept, considered a form of rural tourism which uses for
accommodation and meal only touristic pensions and Agro touristic farms,
benefiting in its cadre of an unpolluted and picturesque environment, natural
tourist attractions and cultural and historical values, traditions and customs
of the rural areas. Therefore, agro tourism refers to various forms of tourism
related to agricultural activities and / or agricultural arrangements. This
particular form of rural tourism is organized by farmers, usually as a
secondary activity, agriculture remaining the main occupation and source of
income. Of the main problems of agrotourism in our country at present we
enumerate: insufficient promotion of the touristic objectives, low quality of
tourism services (the quality – price ratio is inadequate), obsolete road
infrastructure, the limited number of projects for obtaining grants offered by
European institutions, the degree of seasonality (seasonal concentration of
tourism activity overlaps with the agricultural seasons), environmental
degradation, etc. This paper contains an analysis of touristic traffic in a
pension from Arieşeni area in order to highlight the changes produced within
two years and the reasons for these changes (variations)
