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• Vorzsak, Magdalena
• Gut, Carmen Maria

At global level, the industry of tourism represents the most dynamic activity sector, the mostimportant generator of workplaces, and a source of recovery for the national economy. Specialists consider that,in the global perspective, travel and tourism, together with information technology and telecommunicationswill be the three industries of services with the highest turnover. Religious tourism is an essential component ofcultural tourism. This form of tourism exists for centuries and shows some features of pilgrimage proper, buthas undergone considerable changes, nevertheless. Nowadays, religious tourism involves high educational andcultural level of the tourists, which would allow appreciation of cultural-religious sights from the point of viewof the architecture, value construction, spiritual significance and content of works of art. In the present paperthe authors realized a comparative analysis of the Romanian religious tourism and the sector of tourism ingeneral and highlighted the main issues this sector is currently confronted with.

• Economics and Business
• Other social sciences

• Τουρισμός
• Economic development
• Telecommunication

tourism, religious tourism, SWOT analysis, development strategies, development perspectives, Romania

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