Wine is not just a drink that people consume on the occasion of holidays or important events in their lives, but it is truly a resource that generates income and, certainly, tourists. To the extent that there is a specific material basis for tourism, tourist attractions and wine-growing resources, wine roads can be created. So far, it has not been proposed a wine road that would pass through all the counties in the South-Muntenia Development Region, given that in each county there is at least one wine-growing center. The purpose of this study is to inventory the tourist resources (areas cultivated with vines of fruit, tourist attractions in wine centers, accommodation units in wine centers) of the South-Muntenia Development Region, in order to propose a “South-Muntenian Wine Road”. Thus, the areas cultivated with vines of fruit tend to decrease at the level of the South-Muntenia Development Region, and the “South-Muntenian wine road” could total approximately 876 kilometers. The dev...

The wine sector is important for the present Romanian economy and has millennial origins in our country. Proving the previous statement, the paper presents the evolution of wine production, by consumption categories and types of colors, obtained in Romania and the analysis of the foreign trade in the category of wines, for the period 2013present. The data available for 2018 indicated that, of the total production of noble wines (3,369.9 thousand hl), by consumption categories, the highest percentage was held by other wines (without PDO / PGI)-55%, and by types of colors white wines achieved the largest amount (2,189.7 thousand hl). Moldova Hills represent the most important wine region of Romania, due to the amount of wines obtained here. Complementary to the economic analysis, we also introduced aspects of Romanian traditions related to wine. For the present paper, we took and analyzed data from reference works and sites like Faostat, ITC, NIS and MADR.

The author aims at highlighting the evolution of tourism activity lately. The economic crisis has affected the whole world and it has made its mark also on the tourism activities. The tourism resources have a special importance in the Danube area. The diversity of the relief, the multitude of species of flora and fauna create possibilities for development as a niche type of tourism. The analysis of the main indicators of the tourism traffic has found significant changes in terms of tourism activity along the Danube valley. In this article it is considered the area strongly influenced by the river, consisting of the 12 counties bordering the Danube Caras-Severin, Mehedinti, Dolj, Olt, Teleorman, Giurgiu, Calarasi, Constanta, Ialomita, Braila, Galati, Tulcea.

This paper will look at the manner in which Romania is perceived by an Irishman, Peter Hurley, living here for twenty years, travelling on foot from Săpânța to Bucharest (26 days, 650 kilometers) and recounting it all in a book, The Way of the Crosses (2013). The title of Hurley’s book may have been inspired by a hybrid Irish-Romanian experience, signaled to the author by another Irishman, Shaun Davey, who, in 2009, composed music triggered by the “lyrics” of the epitaphs on the crosses in the Merry Cemetery of Săpânța, Romania. Travelling, being inspired by Romanian landscape and culture, with the background of the Irish writer’s “sense of place”, Hurley’s account is meant to reach audiences beyond the Romanian border and enable further interaction. The project of walking the way of the crosses and the writing about it, drawing maps and showing pictures fit in the Irish author’s preoccupations with bringing to the fore authentic traditional Romania. His travel writing becomes a means through which Romanian-Irish personal and collective memory are transmitted beyond boundaries, avoiding ideological perspectives, using elements such as Dacian pottery, Romanian ceramic production today and the story of the last family of potters in Maramureș. The translation of aspects of Romanian culture involves recalling legends, rituals, beliefs, stories, historical accounts, which are resituated in a trasnational context (for instance, haystack making in Maramureș and the West of Ireland, Romanian children in popular costumes playing with plastic Chinese-made toyguns, a Romanian peasant as the Last of the Mohicans). Hybridity also results from the author’s bilingualism (e.g. praying at a troiță in Romanian and translating the prayer into English in the book or keeping theRomanian words for “traistă”, “horincă”, “zacuscă”, “șindrile”).

Economic, political and military axis, the Danube is ‘one of our ethnic parts of the territory’ (after Benea, 2009, p.23). The Romanian Danube Valley lies on 38% of the total lenght of the River and has two important tourism sectors: Delta and the Iron Gate Gorge which are suitable for cruises, water sports and ecotourism development. This study is aimed to evaluate the level at which the Romanian towns-port are suitable for tourism and, at the same time, in what extent they can be touristic point of view put in value. The evaluation of tourism potential is made based on bonitation method used by PATN and Ministry of Agriculture for natural and man made resources, on the demographic characteristics of urban population, on the tourism demand and offer. The results are revealing a concentration of the tourism heritage in two sectors and in several hotspots which overlap with towns, monasteries or fortresses, fact proving, once more, the opportunity to create ‘’sophisticated’’ tourism ...

Wine sector can contribute to the rediscovery of Romania as a possible tourist destination, and the multiplication of interest in this area can offer a wide range of experiences (through rural tourism, wine tourism), active holidays and even business opportunities. The development of tourist destinations is closely linked to their natural environment, cultural distinctiveness, social interaction, security and wellbeing of local populations. These characteristics make wine tourism the driving force for the conservation and development of the tourist destinations in the Dealu Mare vineyard, the largest vineyard in the most important wine-growing area of the country. Romania has a remarkable wine heritage, both on a European and global economic confirmed statistics every year. Wine tourism is on an incipient phase in Romania, compared to other countries with significant wine heritage, but is likely sufficiently sustained development, especially wine-growing potential value resulting from the studies undertaken to implementation of European Union wine reform. Dealu Mare is a vineyard where wine tourism could potentially increase the flow of tourists as well as improve their quality.

Decima edizione del Convegno Internazionale Comunicazione e Cultura nella Romania europea (CICCRE). Timișoara (Romania), 10-11 giugno 2022. In presenza e online. Sito web ufficiale: https://ciccre.uvt.ro/it