CACTUS CACTUS J Tour Bus Manag Econ CACTUS – Journal of Tourism Business, Management and Economics 2247-3297 ASE Publishing House Bucharest, Romania 10.24818/CTS/3/2021/1.02 cactus-2021-3 Research Article Z30, Z32 The Relationship Between the Number of Tourists Arrived in Romania's Development Regions and the Gross Domestic Product Mirea Cosmin Nicolae cosminnicolaemirea@gmail.com Sârbu Alexandra Maria Maria Ionescu Andra Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Central Europe - Unilever, Romania 15 6 2021 3 1 1562021 Copyright © 2021, The Author(s) 2021 The Author(s) This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

At national level, the contribution of tourism to the formation of the Gross Domestic Product is quite significant, considering the year 2019, when the contribution of tourism was 6.1% (World Travel & Tourism Council, 2021).Thus, the connection between tourism and Gross Domestic Product is indisputable. The purpose of this study is to find out the influence of the number of tourists arriving in the development regions of Romania on the Gross Domestic Product. The regression method was applied for data processing, using the statistical program EViews. The highest increase in the Gross Domestic Product, depending on the increase in the number of tourists, is registered in the South-Muntenia Development Region, and the smallest increase is registered in the Bucharest-Ilfov Development Region. The results show that a large number of tourists does not necessarily mean generating a considerable increase in Gross Domestic Product.

 Keywords Tourists Gross Domestic Product Development Regions Regression

Full text available in PDF format.

References Association of Accredited Public Policy Advocates to the European Union. (2015). 15 tourism regions in Europe. Retrieved June 21, 2021, from http://www.aalep.eu/15-tourism-regions-europe Bădulescu, A., Bădulescu, D., Simuț, R., & Dzitac, S. (2020). Tourism–economic growth nexus: The case of Romania. Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 26(4), 867–884. Batista e Silva, F., Barranco, R., Proietti, P., Pigaiani, C., & Lavalle, C. (2020). A new European regional tourism typology based on hotel location patterns and geographical criteria. Annals of Tourism Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2020.103077 10.1016/j.annals.2020.103077 Caglayan, E., Șak, N., & Karymshakov, K. (2012). Relationship between tourism and economic growth: A panel Granger causality approach. Asian Economic and Financial Review, 2(5), 591–602. Dredge, D., & Jenkins, J. (2003). Destination place identity and regional tourism policy. Tourism Geographies, 5(4), 383–407. Dumitru, N. (2012). The contribution of tourism in the process of economic growth. Journal of Tourism, 41–47. Feriyanto, N. (2020). Economic and tourism factors affecting the real gross regional domestic product: A case study. European Research Studies, 23(3), 736–756. Gogonea, R. M., & Zaharia, M. (2019). The employed population and tourism flows in Romania’s regional economic recovery: A cointegration analysis. Journal of Tourism: Studies and Research in Tourism, (27), 1–6. Gogonea, R. M., Baltălungă, A. A., Nedelcu, A., & Dumitrescu, D. (2017). Tourism pressure at the regional level in the context of sustainable development in Romania. Sustainability, 9, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9050698 10.3390/su9050698 Karagozzeren, S. (2018). Determination of number of arriving tourists and night spent in accommodation relations with economic growth: The case of Turkey. Prizren Social Science Journal, 2(2), 210–224. Lazăr, D., & Pop, F. (2012). A note on tourism demand in Romania: Time series analysis and relationship with economic growth. Managerial Challenges of the Contemporary Society. Proceedings, 4, 7–11. Minciu, R. (2004). Tourism economics. Uranus Publishing House. Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration. (2013). National strategy for regional development. Retrieved June 19, 2021, from https://inforegio.ro/images/Documente_de_programare/Strategia_Nationala_Dezvoltare_Regiunea_-_iulie_2013.pdf National Institute of Statistics. (2021). Statistical databases – Tempo-Online time series. Retrieved June 10, 2021, from http://statistici.insse.ro:8077/tempo-online/ Nisthar, S., & Vijayakumar, S. (2016). An analysis of the relationship between the real gross domestic production (RGDP) and tourism sector: An econometric study on Sri Lankan perspective. International Journal on Global Business Management & Research, 5(1), 47–63. Pascariu, G. C., & Țigănașu, R. (2014). Tourism and sustainable regional development in Romania and France: An approach from the perspective of new economic geography. Economic Amphitheater, 16(8), 1089–1109. Popescu, D., Oehler-Șincai, I. M., Bulin, D., & Tănase, I. A. (2018). ECE-16: A cluster analysis based on tourism competitiveness and correlations with major determinants. Economic Amphitheater, 20(12), 597–616. Pripoaie, R. (2017). Analysis of disparities between regional GDP per capita by region. EuroEconomica, 36(2), 211–215. Prosser, G. (2000). Regional tourism research: A scoping study (pp. 1–29). Center for Regional Tourism Research. Stăncioiu, A. F., Teodorescu, N., Pârgaru, I., Vlădoi, A. D., & Băltescu, C. (2011). The image of the tourism destination – A supporting element in the development of the regional tourism brand study case: Muntenia. Theoretical and Applied Economics, 18(2), 139–152. World Travel & Tourism Council. (2021). WTTC economic impact research. Retrieved June 24, 2021, from https://wttc.org/Research/Economic-Impact