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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>

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        <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="publisher-id">cactus-2010-17</article-id>

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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>L83, R5, R11</subject>
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        <article-title>Particularities of the Inter-Community Development Area Alba Iulia from Romania</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Băltăreţu</surname>
            <given-names>Andreea</given-names>
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          <email>baltaretuandreea@yahoo.com</email>
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          <institution>„Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, Bucharest, Romania</institution>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>15</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2010</year>
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      <volume>2</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      
      

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        <date date-type="received"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2010</year></date>
        
        
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        <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2010, The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2010</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
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      <abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The inter-community development area Alba Iulia is situated in the Central-Eastern part of the county Alba. The association with the same name was founded on June 27th 2007. In the analysed are one can find accommodation units and foodservice operators, treatment facilities and ways of entertainment which are not concentrated around a resort but are spread in an artificial form in the hotels with a high degree of comfort. The position of the town Alba Iulia is favourable in relation with the heritage values, creating premises for the development of the tourism. The municipality Alba Iulia shows a unique combination of competitive elements: history, architecture and environment. The vision of development in the period 2005-2020 is based on a historic basis related to the Roman times, refined by the German culture and having inestimable symbolic values, as the military fortress Vauban. In what the tourism possibilities from this area are concerned, there are some tracks which lead to the main tourism objectives or which lead to areas and landscape of an unimaginable beauty. We can also mention the fact tat due to the chalk and conglomerates composition of the mountains, some gorges have been formed which were already introduced in tourism circuits, the so called “Green Roads”. The Forestry Directorate Alba Iulia has initiated some tourism packages which it sells in the inter-community development area Alba Iulia, the accommodation is offered in its own welcoming units. One can also mention other sight in the surroundings of the town Alba Iulia, which can lead to the growth of the flow of tourists and implicitly to the development of the local economy as well as to some new tourism tracks and entertainment bases.</p></abstract>

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        <kwd>accommodation structures</kwd>
<kwd>tourism heritage</kwd>
<kwd>tourism tracks</kwd>
<kwd>tourism planning</kwd>
<kwd>recreation area</kwd>
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