Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 25 ISSUE 3
Written by Jenica CĂLINA, Aurel CĂLINA

The study aims to analyze the total tourism potential of Mehedinți County and the way the rural tourism market reacted and adapted to the effects and impact of the pandemic on it, during the period 2019-2023. It was mainly focused on the analysis and characterization of the adaptation of the specific structures of rural tourism and agrotourism. In the first part, the value of the tourism potential as a whole in this county was inventoried and analyzed, which contributed decisively to the return and readaptation of the tourism market to the new conditions imposed by the impact of the pandemic on the entire economic activity in the county, but especially on tourism activity. In the second part, a series of indicators were analyzed based on which the effects of the pandemic on the rural tourism market in the studied county were first established in 2019 and 2020, after which in 2021-2023, its reaction and adaptation to the new conditions and realities that emerged after the pandemic were observed. Based on the data analyzed in the tables included in the paper, a series of conclusions and recommendations were formulated that aimed at the possibility of rapid adaptation, so that the negative impact of the pandemic would be as low as possible and its effects on the circulation and tourism activity in the county would be as short-lived as possible.

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