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Transactions: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of ENERGY and ENVIRONMENT
Transactions ID Number: 19-769
Full Name: Dumitru Bala
Position: Professor
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Address: Calugareni 1, Drobeta Turnu Severin
Country: ROMANIA
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Title of the Paper: Statistics – reference point in the analysis of the tourism phenomenon
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Dumitru Bala, Mirela Mazilu, Roxana Cristina Marinescu, Irimie Nicoleta Daniela
Email addresses of all the authors: dumitru_bala@yahoo.com,mirelamazilu2004@yahoo.com,roxanaseverineanu@yahoo.com,irimiedanna@yahoo.com
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Statistics represent an essential element of the information system and occupies a special place in the information supply regarding the status and trends of country's economic, social, demographic and tourism development. The transformations of the global economy driven by the liberalization of the global trade and modern information technologies, lead to a globalization, where the notion of national statistical territory leaves gradually, place to the regional or global statistical area. This phenomenon is more pronounced in the European Union, where accelerated mergers between groups of countries, the removal of control on internal trade (goods, capital, services and people), settlement of a single currency are essential to harmonize the concepts and statistical standards in order to obtain a unique statistical language. Also, all these lead to the development of statistics that capture the transactions between economic and social groups within the European Unio!
n, rather than to statistics limited geographically to national level. Romanian statistical system must keep pace with these developments and to participate effectively in Europe and globally, adapting its concepts and standards. Under the newly created circumstances, especially those for integration into Europe and expanding the international cooperation, the role of statistics as a leading producer of information becomes increasingly important. The interest of investors in Romanian tourism is greater and greater, but a huge obstacle in the way of launching the investment projects is the insufficiency of statistics in this field, which hinder a lot the completion of the feasibility studies and of the investment projects. How many foreigners are visiting Romania for business and how many for pleasure? What was the value of the private investments in Poiana Brasov last year or in any other tourist resort in our country? What was the average expense of a foreign tourist in re!
sort X? There is not exact information, only estimations. "Romanian t
ourism is suffering from an acute lack of statistics, and those which exist are doubtful and are not available on time", and "the investments have been hindered by the fact that we have not had sufficient statistical data. I consider there should exist a department within the Ministry of Tourism which should deal mainly with this problem, declare more and more professionals from Romanian tourism. Until last year, the only existing data regarding the evolution of the Romanian tourism were the ones published by the National Institute of Statistics (NIS). The publishing frequency of these data – every trimester – is too small for the private sector, which needs monthly information. Moreover, the majority of the business people from the industry do not use this information because they do not believe in it. "Even now statistical data are collected, but it would be extremely interesting to check the accuracy of these data through polls, data which is insufficient anyway", thinks !
the president of the hotel consultancy company Peacock Management Consulting. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle in Romania … that we need statistics it is obvious, and tourism and statistics are connected and lead to the desired quality information which statistics has used us with.
Keywords: tourism, statistics, information, prognosis, poll.
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