CACTUS CACTUS J Tour Bus Manag Econ CACTUS – Journal of Tourism Business, Management and Economics 2247-3297 ASE Publishing House Bucharest, Romania cactus-2014-4 Research Article A10, B53, E20, E32, L83 The intercorrelation between tourism and the environmental evolution in the context of the economic cycle. Case study: Romania Păun Iulian Gabriel gabipaun90@gmail.com Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania 15 6 2014 9 1 1562014 Copyright © 2014, The Author(s) 2014 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/

Because the effects of economic cycles and, in particular, the crisis of recent years, are becoming stronger and more extensive , affecting whole sectors of the world economy and national tourism through important role to contribute to mitigating these negative consequences . To help increase however , support and economic recovery, it is necessary to identify factors that have a strong influence on indicators of tourist traffic. This will then allow the ranking factors exerted by link indicators hierarchy that can be a foundation for the design of strategies and policies to maximize the positive effects of tourism on the national economy. At the same time, it can contribute to a better understanding of how the determinants of tourism act at different stages of the economic cycle. This paper examines the links between a number of macroeconomic indicators ( GDP, employment, real wages ) and a number of indicators of tourist traffic (number of overnights , arrivals, departures). Analysis period includes the years of the economic cycle (2005-2012) and highlights the links between economic growth , economic recession , and the correlations for the entire period.

Keywords environmental economic cycle tourism influence factors Romania

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