Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Claudia Elena Ţuclea Author-Name-First: Claudia Elena Author-Name-Last: Ţuclea Author-Email: claudia.tuclea@com.ase.ro Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania Author-Name: Mihai Felea Author-Name-First: Mihai Author-Name-Last: Felea Author-Email: mihai.felea@com.ase.ro Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania Author-Name: Mădălina Ţală Author-Name-First: Mădălina Author-Name-Last: Ţală Author-Email: madalina.tala@com.ase.ro Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania Title: Commercial Services in Metropolitan Areas Journal: CACTUS - The Tourism Journal for Research, Education, Culture and Soul Abstract: A major advantage for the metropolitan areas is the establishment of a coherent commercial system. Therefore, in Romania there are more than 100.000 shops, our country being a leader in Europe in what the number of shops per thousand inhabitants is concerned. Presently, in our country there are different ways of selling the products: in supermarkets, hypermarkets, cash&carry, malls, specialised centres and so on. More and more well known companies are interested in the potential of the markets from the Romanian metropolitan areas. This paper analyses the Romanian commerce and the large chain stores which invest in our country. Our present research is a part of the DEMOS project. Keywords: commerce, metropolitan areas, retail trade Classification-JEL: R11, O18 Creation-Date: 2010 Year: 2010 Volume: 1 Issue: 1 File-URL: https://cactus-journal-of-tourism.ase.ro/Pdf/vol1/comercial.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bum:cactus:cactus-2010-4