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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">CACTUS</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">CACTUS J Tour Bus Manag Econ</journal-id>

      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>CACTUS – Journal of Tourism Business, Management and Economics</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2247-3297</issn>

      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>ASE Publishing House</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>Bucharest, Romania</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24818/CTS/4/2022/2.03</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">cactus-2022-13</article-id>

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          <subject>R41, Z30, C23</subject>
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        <article-title>Intermodal GIS analysis model for assessing the travel cost to tourist resorts in Romania</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Tache</surname>
            <given-names>Antonio Valentin</given-names>
          </name>
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7202-347X</contrib-id>
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          <email>tonytache62@gmail.com</email>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" >
          <name>
            <surname>Petrişor</surname>
            <given-names>Alexandru-Ionuţ</given-names>
          </name>
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2159-4034</contrib-id>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" >
          <name>
            <surname>Ciogescu</surname>
            <given-names>Ovidiu-Eugen</given-names>
          </name>
          
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" >
          <name>
            <surname>Tache</surname>
            <given-names>Maria-Monica</given-names>
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      <aff id="aff1_1">
        <label>1</label>
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          <institution>National Institute for Research and Development in Constructions, Urbanism and Sustainable SpatialDevelopment URBAN-INCERC, Bucharest, Romania</institution>
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      <aff id="aff2_1">
        <label>2</label>
        <institution-wrap>
          <institution>Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania</institution>
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      <aff id="aff3_1">
        <label>3</label>
        <institution-wrap>
          <institution>S.C. Electrovâlcea S.R.L., Râmnicu Vâlcea,, Romania</institution>
        </institution-wrap>
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      <aff id="aff4_1">
        <label>4</label>
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          <institution>National Institute for Research and Development in Tourism, Bucharest, Romania</institution>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>15</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2022</year>
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      <volume>4</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      
      

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        <date date-type="received"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2022</year></date>
        
        
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      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2022, The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2022</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
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      <abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Tourists, like any other users of transport systems, seek to travel safely from origin to destination, choosing the appropriate route in relation to the speed, comfort, and cost of trip. Therefore, the goal is, from a tourism transport planning perspective, to minimize connections and, wherever necessary, make them as efficient as possible. Multimodal solutions allow passengers to adopt less polluting modes of transport whenever possible, encouraging a more sustainable journey. Digital solutions and integrated planning services offer the potential for sustainable, easy-to-use and efficient multimodal travel. The purpose of this article is to present a novel GIS-type IT solution for assessing the cost of multimodal transport to tourist resorts in Romania. The IT platform considers the movement of tourists to tourist resorts through two networks in the intermodal system, railways and national roads, connected through nodes represented by the railway stations.</p></abstract>

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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>accessibility</kwd>
<kwd>web application</kwd>
<kwd>multimodal transport</kwd>
<kwd>Romania</kwd>
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