CACTUS CACTUS J Tour Bus Manag Econ CACTUS – Journal of Tourism Business, Management and Economics 2247-3297 ASE Publishing House Bucharest, Romania cactus-2015-3 Research Article I28, M14, O13, Z13 Brief analysis on relationship. Non-formal education - youth tourismCase study - Romania Mureșan Manuela Liliana manumuresan@gmail.com Vrânceanu Diana Maria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5547-7493 Nistoreanu Puiu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8369-7899 Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania 15 6 2015 11 1 1562015 Copyright © 2015, The Author(s) 2015 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/

Youth tourism has a long tradition in Europe and is no stranger to Romania, being practiced here since 1968, two of the most important resorts are Costinești and Izvorul Mureșului. This paper aims to be the first who bring attention about the significant role in the development of youth tourism by the non-formal education and by her methods of activity. The future of the Romanian youth tourism in the national and international market consists in the cooperation of all stakeholders in creating a system for the Millennial Generation. The Romanian youth tourism is an extremely important segment of tourism industry able to generate long term profit.

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