Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stoenescu Cristina Author-Name-First: Stoenescu Author-Name-Last: Cristina Author-Email: cris_stoenescu@yahoo.ro Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania Title: New Perspectives of The Tourism And Air Travel Relationship Journal: CACTUS - The Tourism Journal for Research, Education, Culture and Soul Abstract: Air transport and tourism have always been interconnected, influencing each other. Over the years, as air travel has been undergoing a series of changes, tourism organizations have also been affected, developing new tourism products, establishing partnerships and reinventing the services offered. This paper focuses on the impact of air travel on the tourism industry, taking into consideration the role of the airport in the regional economic development, the new forms of tourism developed as a consequence of the different changes in the airline industry and the recent position of air travel in the creation of tourism packages. At the same time, an analysis of data was made in order to highlight the role of air travel in tourism development in Romania. Keywords: Air travel, tourism, tourism development, air transport, low cost airlines, tourism packages Classification-JEL: L93, Z32, L83 Creation-Date: 2017 Year: 2017 Volume: 16 Issue: 1 File-URL: https://cactus-journal-of-tourism.ase.ro/Pdf/vol16/3.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bum:cactus:cactus-2017-15