1Human Geography and Tourism Department, Faculty of Geography, Babeș-Bolyai University, ClujNapoca, Romania
Pages:
78 - 86
Abstract:
We are talking about Transylvania as an ex-province of Romania
and a current geographical and historical region which encompasses
maximum 10 counties: Alba, Bistrița, Brașov, Cluj, Covasna, Mureș, Harghita,
Hunedoara, Sălaj, Sibiu. Because of the multitude and variety of tourist
resources, complementarity stands out as a specific attribute of the tourist
attractiveness of this multicultural region, which bear the mark of the 3 great
cohabitant ethnic groups: Romanians, Hungarians and Germans. The natural
tourist resources assure the background for the anthropic ones. A sustainable
and unitary development of Transylvania for tourism could not be carried out
without an enterprise of shaping a new and unique destination image, prior
to the development itself, according to the mental individualisation through
geographical and historic landmarks and based on the natural and anthropic
tourism resources of the area. As a conceptual frameworks for this paper, we
specify the geography and tourism literature.