Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 16 ISSUE 1
Written by Andrei Radu IOVA, Mariana NĂSTASE, Elena LASCĂR

The rural tourism becomes more and more attractive as the tourists become more mobile and look for a change from the city life. The rural tourism and agrotourism activities interfere, complement and support each other, forming a sector to be organized specifically taking account its geographical, economic, social specific etc., the specificity of its products and the role they should play in the development of the rural area. Based on these considerations, the present paper proposed an analysis of the implementation of the European projects to support the tourism activities in the rural area, by type of programs and their impact on socio-economic development in these areas given that in the period 2000- 2014, the number of tourist structures in the rural area increased from 3121 units to 6089 units with the accommodation potential and agrotourism activities. The analysis was made at the macroeconomic level, on total country and by development regions, quantifying the number of projects implemented in each region.

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