Georgia-Daniela Tacu Hârșan

• Researcher
• Researcher at Romanian Academy - Iași Branch

TARS Conference was born out of the need of researchers to assess and promote the economic scientific research portfolio on tourism, to argue and substantiate its development strategies, and to provide European and international best practices. The first edition of TARS, originally entitled Turismul rural românesc (Romanian Rural Tourism), took pl...

The three states that border the Black Sea benefit from an important potential for tourism and consider the development of this sector to be a major objective. Nonetheless, they face environmental risks. Tourism does not have a neutral impact on the ecosystem. We evaluated tourism sustainability for three states bordering the Black Sea, Bulgaria, R...

This volume is a selection of articles presented at the 24th International Conference on Tourism and Rural Space in National and International Context – TARS held online on May 27, 2022. TARS is the new denomination of the 1998-2020 International Conference on Romanian Rural Tourism in International Context: Present and Prospects – RoRuT. The title...

The importance of the agricultural sector, of the organic production and of the agricultural labour market leads the authors to study their dynamics and characteristics with regard to Romania. Food safety is linked to the agricultural activity's robustness and its evolution, given that the primary sector is the one that defines economic growth. The...

Resilience is a concept that reflects the ability to cope with change; sustainability is the ability to preserve the beneficial aspects associated with economic activity. Regarding the last decades, we assess the extent to which the resilience of sustainable tourism depends on labour market, economic growth, energy consumption, and renewable energy...

Travel trends determine the evolution of the tourism industry and also has an impact on all sectors operating in this industry. Tourism is an industry with a complex profile, which highlights both the country's tourism potential and a wide range of services, which contributes to meeting certain moral, cultural, spiritual needs and, last but not lea...

Local traditional products have been "rediscovered" in the last years and are taking on a more and more important role in the preferences of the consumers, both because of the fact that they have a powerful symbolic value, and for their nutritional properties and qualities. Prepared after methods and recipes that have been passed on from generation...

Today, in the era of competition and post-COVID challenges, tourism has become an important part of our life for everyone because it gives the necessary break from the monotonous life as a result of lockdown of couple of months during the covid period. Various studies have revealed that tourism influences peoples’ quality of life. India’s travel an...

The opinion that in Romania the diseases and the deficiencies caused by alimentation no longer exist has almost become a common place. But the reality is different. On one hand, the Roumanians eat too much, too fat, too sweet and far too much meat; on the other hand, they eat too few vitamins, minerals and fibrous foods. The question is how did thi...

The paper starts from the drama of young people after graduating from school. In general, there is an expectation regarding the employment of young people in well-known companies for successful careers. This year was associated with the fact that tourism is a development priority for both Neamț County and Piatra Neamț. We put in front of the young...

The 2019 coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the business environment from all the sectors. One of the first and worst affected was tourism, in general, and airline industry, in particular. The purpose of this study is to investigate the short-term effects of coronavirus pandemic on the airline industry and the potential recovery pathways. Using an...

Costinești resort is the symbol of the seaside for young people, which is why it has attracted a significant number of high school or student tourists. But the therapeutic importance of these resorts was not and should not be neglected by the presence of valuable spa resources, especially for diseases of the musculoskeletal system. The present pape...

One of the biggest risks faced by the Romanian rural demography is the aging and depopulation of villages. With an often-precarious infrastructure, with a low level of education and health insurance, the rural population of Gorj County is faced with a new risk, that of dismissal of miners by reducing the activity of the Oltenia Energy Complex and t...

The paper is elaborated on three pillars. The first pillar refers to the tourist basin Ozana Valley from Neamț County (Romania) which is one of the most important and most frequented tourist areas in the country. The second pillar refers to a concept of classification of the component elements using the "order in complication" method, through which...

During recent decades, tourism has become one of the most dynamic and fastest growing economic sectors in the world. Tourism is the economic sector that contributes to job creation both directly and indirectly, especially for women and young people. Thus, in 2019, the number of jobs in tourism accounted for 10.3% of total jobs worldwide, and the co...

Religious tourism has an important socio-cultural component, being a practice that positions man within a sacred and spiritual space. Thus, religious tourism has the ability to influence the motivational state of a person seeking cultural and religious objects and places that support his spiritual existence. This article analyzes some possible mark...

This paper tries to highlight the most important historical and medical aspects, which have marked the existence of Soveja resort over time. Starting from a simple Daco-Roman settlement, Soveja represents a symbol of the Romanian nation, considering the numerous transitions of the peoples in this area. Long-established locality, Soveja was on the M...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruption to activities in many fields, including education and lifestyle. Major changes have taken place in the education system, where specific activities migrated suddenly from onsite to online. As a result, this period has witnessed an increased interest in impact studies that analyse the perceptions of the act...

Tourism has played a significant economic part both in Europe and worldwide, which is statistically demonstrated by the growing share of this sector in the European economy in the last decades. An important contribution has been made by urban cultural tourism, that niche of tourist activity on which we focused our analysis. This paper analyzed, for...

"Gh. Zane" Institute of Economic and Social Research (Iași Branch of Romanian Academy), Centre of Mountain Economy of Vatra Dornei (Romanian Academy), and National Agency for Mountain Areas of Vatra Dornei (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) have the pleasure of inviting you to the 23rd International Conference on Tourism and Rural Spa...

Participation at the Tourism and Rural Space in National and International Context - TARS (former RoRuT), 27 May 2021

This study investigates safety and security from the perspective of Romanian tourists by assessing the level of importance that tourists give to safety and security depending on the level of classification of the services they experienced and the generation to which they belong. We used a quantitative research method in the form of a questionnaire...

Tourism significantly increased in the EU-28 in recent years. In the present study, the 28 member states were analysed for the period between 2012 and 2018, depending on data availability. The authors tested empirically whether economic convergence took place from the perspective of three types of revenue from the tourism sector. The contribution o...