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Statistical Trends of the Tourism Industry in Calarasi County, Romania

Type of paper: Research Article

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Cosmin Nicolae Mirea

Affiliation: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

Email: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

Published:June 15, 2022
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Mirea, C. N. (2022). Statistical Trends of the Tourism Industry in Calarasi County, Romania. CACTUS - Journal of Tourism Business, Management and Economics, 4 (1). doi.org/10.24818/CTS/4/2022/1.05

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Abstract

Tourist establishments are indispensable elements of touristic activity, in the sense that the tourism potential of a destination cannot be capitalized without the existence of accommodation, food, transport and leisure establishments, but also of travel agencies. Calarasi County has all the tourism establishments mentioned above, and their dynamics are different, presenting different growth rates. The purpose of this work is to carry out a statistical analysis of the aforementioned tourist establishments in order to find out whether they tend to increase or decrease their number in the future. In the case of Calarasi County, besides the transport establishments, the other tourism establishments analyzed show a tendency to increase from a numerical point of view, a fact demonstrated by the adjustment of the data series. For the processing of the data, average indicators, indicators of the central trend were used, and for the adjustment of the data, the method of the average increase was used.

Keywords

Tourism industry, statistical trends, Calarasi County

JEL Classification

Z30, Z31

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