Mirela Mazilu

• PROFESSOR PHD
• University of Craiova

Wine tourism model is an industry with great prospects for economic development in the rural areas of the Oltenia Region. This study develops a conceptual framework of wine tourism model through a review of the relevant literature and an exploratory study of the Oltenia region. Although it has a wine industry with development prospects, the region...

Urban green spaces are a necessity in the innovative-sustainable and modern development of municipalities/cities, as they must ensure the reduction of the negative effects of climate change and atmospheric pollution on the environment, but at the same time, the supply of ecosystem services for resident urban communities must be ensured. The urban g...

Urban green spaces are a necessity in the innovative-sustainable and modern development of municipalities/cities, as they must ensure the reduction of the negative effects of climate change and atmospheric pollution on the environment, but at the same time, the supply of ecosystem services for resident urban communities must be ensured. The urban g...

Conference: “INFORMATION SOCIETY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT”. XIth Edition of the International Scientific Conference ISSD 2024, held between June 20 - 21, 2024, in Varna, Bulgaria with report GLAMPING TOURISM—A NEW TREND TO RELAUNCH POST-CORONAVIRUS TOURISM IN THE SOUTH-WEST OLTENIA REGION.

Conference: “INFORMATION SOCIETY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT”. XIth Edition of the International Scientific Conference ISSD 2024, held between June 20 - 21, 2024, in Varna, Bulgaria with report ASPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUSTAINABLE TOURIST PRODUCT “MEHEDINȚI PLATEAU GEOPARK” OLTENIA REGION.

Conference: “INFORMATION SOCIETY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT”. XIth Edition of the International Scientific Conference ISSD 2024, held between June 20 - 21, 2024, in Varna, Bulgaria with report SPA TOURISM—A TREND TO CAPITALIZE ON TOURIST RESOURCES IN THE SUBCARPATHIANS VÂLCII, SOUTH-WEST OLTENIA REGION.

Rural tourism is characterized as a form of self-initiated tourism, which has, in the foreground, the involvement of the local population, which helps considerably in supporting and promoting traditions, crafts, and customs. The methodology of this research is based on the study of the specialized literature by investigating a case study regarding...

Within the framework of this paper, we proposed to analyze the evolution of demand for this destination during the restrictions generated by COVID 19, but also the interest of investors in this area. The Danube Delta represented the ideal destination of 2020, in a pandemic context, and continued to represent it in 2021. In this sense, the objective...

Vâlcea County in the South-West Oltenia Region, Romania, has a great diversity of tourist destinations and boasts an impressive number of monasteries, churches and places of worship. This research aims to comprehensively investigate how tourists perceive the main reasons for visiting religious settlements and the frequency in Vâlcea County, situate...

This certificate was provided by religions journal upon acceptance of the paper. Religions is one of the high impact and quality journal of the MDPI. The paper will be online soon on MDPI.

The proposed approach—geotourism, a new medium- and long-term post-pandemic recovery perspective—provides a theoretical foundation for future research regarding the interactions between tourism agencies and tourists, visitors and landforms, as well as cooperation and support between local residents and tourists, for Bucegi Natural Park. In the curr...

The study aims to explore the resilience and adaptation of the tourism sector during economic and health crises, with a focus on specific events and their impact. The main objective is to contribute with valuable insights to the ongoing discourse on crisis management and sustainable practices within the tourism industry. Thus, it presents the dynam...

This research paper investigates the state of agricultural crops in the Oltenia Region.We analyzed the main major agricultural crops (wheat, corn, sunflower and rapeseed) for the period 1990-2018, in Oltenia.The study aims to answer the following research questions, such as: What are the counties with the largest agricultural cultivated area?, Can...

This research analyses whether the use of an effective method/technique, as support in the educational process, can make pupils better understand the concepts learned in Geography classes and be more effective in practical tests. Thus, this research is based on the design and use of the method of graphic organizers in the teaching-learning-evaluati...

This research study presents the spatio-temporal distribution of the main agricultural crops in Romania using a modern digitalisation technique, namely interactive GIS mapping. Interactive GIS mapping includes various features specific to the development of sustainable Romanian agriculture, including the arable area of Romania, information on the a...

In accordance with the 2030 Agenda, the prosperity of tourist destinations holds a crucial role in the sustainable development of urban areas. Tourism represents an imperative solution in transitioning from survival to success after the COVID-19 pandemic. The stakeholders in the field should introduce new tourism forms that enable a more comprehens...

Until 2020, sea and sun destinations all over the world experienced a surge in the number of tourists, including those in Central and Eastern European countries. During and after the pandemic period, changes in the main source markets took place. Consequently, this paper aims to analyze the main reasons Romanian tourists choose a destination on the...

The competitiveness of tourist destinations presents, from the perspective of sustainability, certain benefits in terms of local and regional development: the involvement of local authorities (city, local and county councils, population) in the conservation of tourist resources, the involvement of tourism agencies in the promotion of rural areas, t...

Conference: “INFORMATION SOCIETY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT”. Xth Edition of the International Scientific Conference ISSD 2023, held between April 27 - 28, 2023, in Valletta, Malta with report UNCERTAINTY AND ADAPTABILITY OF THE ROMANIAN TOURISM IN TERMS OF POST PANDEMIC RECOVERY.

Conference: “INFORMATION SOCIETY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT”. Xth Edition of the International Scientific Conference ISSD 2023, held between April 27 - 28, 2023, in Valletta, Malta with report COUNTRYSIDE TOURISM - A SITUATIONAL ALTERNATIVE AFTER THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. CASE STUDY: VÂLCEA COUNTY, ROMANIA

The paper aims at adapting the knowledge regarding the capitalization of tourist resources to the method of tourist choremas in the Oltenia region, Romania, thus creating a tool for planning and organizing the geographical space for sustainable development. The tourism choremas method uses the graphic and cartographic modelling of the territory of...

In recent years, tourism industry has become a very important sector within the national economy and for this reason, the tourism industry in Romania is considered to have an important role in achieving the objectives defined by the European Commission through the Agenda 2020. The resilience of Romanian tourism to economic crises is characterized b...

In the century of digitization, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) should be implemented and assumed by geography teachers in Romania, at all education cycles (gymnasium, high school and higher), as a basic foundation, in correlation with the concept of "teaching -learning-evaluation". In order for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to...

Geopolitical Eurasia is the large continental mass with the Heartland core group: Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia and so on, exporters of raw materials by direct land and the Continental Rimland: China, Germany, Turkey, Italy, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Thailand and so on, made up of Continental Powers, while the Oceanic Powers,...

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country located in Central Europe. It borders Poland to the north, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east. According to the explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language, the term competitiveness represents the attribute of being competitive, that is, susceptible to accepting and faci...

During 2020-2022, the pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus devastated tourism and its related activities. Thus, wellness tourism has become in the summer of 2022, a paradigm of economic and tourism development after the Covid-19 Pandemic and at the same time a global attraction, with prospects for development, expansion, and capitalization in all...

Romanian tourism has been crushed by the pandemic crisis, the number of tourists has drastically decreased in 2020 compared to 2019, and the new restrictions imposed have limited the type of tourists, so the country has been limited to domestic tourists (96.7% of total arrivals), international tourists having a modest percentage (3.3% of total arri...

Tourism and culture have always been in an interdependent cooperation in Drobeta-Turnu Severin, which has always been an important destination for those attracted by its rich culture alongside its historical and architectural heritage. Therefore, the cultural and historical heritage of Drobeta-Turnu Severin represents one of the oldest and most rem...

The systematisation of tourism areas as an economic phenomenon in correlation with the natural components (relief, beautiful landscapes, climate, hydrography, soil factor, etc.) of the territory as the main elements of Craiova; tourist objectives must be prioritised in the territory and forms of tourism must be promoted according to them. In order...

Museum tourism in the Municipality of Craiova can contribute significantly to the competitiveness of the "Craiova" tourism destination through a cultural infrastructure of the urban area, together with other cultural and recreational facilities (libraries, business tourism, concert halls, outdoor festivals, theatres, philharmonics, etc.) With the l...

Museum tourism in the Municipality of Craiova can contribute significantly to the competitiveness of the "Craiova" tourism destination through a cultural infrastructure of the urban area, together with other cultural and recreational facilities (libraries, business tourism, concert halls, outdoor festivals, theatres, philharmonics, etc.) With the l...

Our study purpose is to analyze the tobacco industry’s sustainable practices by investigating how and when green human resources management (GHRM) practices influence the development of the organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE) at the individual level. Therefore, we focus on OCBE as a mediation mechanism (how) and green cul...

The planning and management of the Bucegi Mountains require tools which allow a broad and essential view in order to identify the tendencies and promotion of some balanced projects of development. Based on the connection between the development of tourism, specific activities and touristic destination, the Bucegi Mountains capitalize the presence o...

In 2020 and 2021, the entire evolution of human society is under the sign of a paradox, of the adversity of events, coming in avalanche. The tourist evolutions themselves suffer the imprint of the paradox. These paradoxes urgently require new paradigms, the famous ‘paradigm shifts’, mentality, optics, action. The purpose of this research is to outl...

In the context of the recent Covid-19 pandemic, the development of ecotourism is one of the real opportunities that the immediate future offers to the SouthWest Oltenia region. The existing facilities, the competitiveness of prices, the analysis of tourist hospitability facilities (accommodation, food for tourism, spa treatment) recommend the South...

Indian and Chinese civilizations have economically dominated the world for 15 centuries, when they are overtaken by: Europe, America, Russia, the Arab states, Brazil, Mexico or Japan, shamefully entering a shadow cone that stretched 3-4 centuries. Towards the end of the twentieth century they begin to matter again, and during the twenty-first centu...

At present, when the mobility of the population is restricted in the spirit of conservation against COVID 19, tourism and with it the tourist destinations lose, not in image, but in the number of tourists and the benefits brought by them. Travel restrictions, natural fears related to health safety, financial limitations in the pocket of every poten...

The aim of the paper is to build the way in which the tourism industry, severely affected in 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, must regain the title of leader of the global economy, made possible by returning to travel habits. The arguments that will answer our concern will be presented in detail, using the inductive and deductive method....

Traveling is definitely a way of life for many of us. However, the year of 2020 is the year of great changes, the tourism sector collapsing with the appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is still too early to see the long-term effects caused by this SARS-CoV-2 virus, especially since this paper aims to analyze the situation of the tourism sector...

Competitiveness together with innovation are printed on all components of a tourist destination, from the tourist product to the elements of attraction, infrastructure, entertainment, human resources, image and character, not forgetting the price that can launch or restrict it on a dynamic tourist market where quality overtakes in recent years and...

This study aims to assess the current situation regarding the sustainable aspect of the Romanian tourism market and also to identify innovative products which can be regarded as sustainable. One of the main objectives is to examine to what extent such products can influence the market and also to be an important tool for the tourism specialists to...

Today's Romanian hospitality industry is thriving with difficulty, searching for more experiences and practices and new ways of thinking in the protection of tourist destinations, or promotion, design and operations of businesses to inspire, change and elevate the guest experience to the sustainable development and sustainable tourism. The word 'su...

Sustainable development is a key issue in full expansion due to the need of new, innovative activities for a proper economic and social development of communities. The new economy implies also investments in human capital in order to bring benefits and to improve the quality of life in different areas, either urban or rural. Investments in human ca...

The Romania-Bulgaria-Serbia Cross-Border Touristic Potential Specific for the South-West Oltenia Region According to the Danube Strategy Approach 1. INTRODUCTION The Danube Strategy proposes the development of tourism and the capitalization of natural and cultural-historical heritage by developing specific infrastructure and intense promotion. Danu...

Motto: “We cannot prevent disasters ... What we hope to do is to be more proactive, to be better prepared so that we can react better, faster.” Winston Choo, 2006The exigencies of environmental protection must be concomitantly achieved both at micro and macroeconomic levels, at individual and national states and international communities’ levels. N...

Romania goes through a long process of transition to the global post-crisis economy and tourism is a part of those branches of economy with a real potential of economic development. The transition to the market economy has led to substantial changes in the conditions of the economic agents’ activity unfolding, which are forced to adapt to the speci...

Competitiveness is a rather broad concept and can be analyzed from several perspectives: of the products, of companies or various economic sectors in the short or long term, being included in various fields - economics, management, politics and culture, each of them with their own perspective. According to OECD (The World Competitiveness Report, 19...

The tourism potential in the Romanian sector of the Danube is higher at its extremities (the gorge area and the Danube Delta), where the natural tourism potential is predominant, and it is lower in the rest of the territory, where the anthropic tourism potential is predominant (in port-cities). The capitalization of the tourist potential of the por...

In shaping the economical and technical processes and tourism activities in Mehedinti County, there can be used with excellent results delicate notions of differential geometry, the theory of differential equations, the theory of dynamic systems and the stability theory. Recent achievements are also in the study of stability of dynamical systems wi...

Tourism increases local reliance upon a global economy, leaking many economic benefits outside of the community back to the companies and countries that control most of the travel infrastructure. At the same time, tourism decreases dependence on local resources, as technologies, food, and health services are imported. Local people may also be pushe...

Natural and cultural resources, a prerequisite for conducting ecotourism in the destination Romania as well, coagulate increasingly more market segments, or retain current targeted segments with new ecotourism components, directing them to new products likely to improve both the quality and the value of tourism products. All stakeholders must work...

Economists, geographers and meteorologists may find it relatively straightforward to understand and predict with accuracy the outlook for the economy or the weather for the coming week as these events are closely bound to the present and have a greater degree of certainty. What about a more long term perspective? In a world where 25 million tourist...

The development of mass tourism has posed threats and created problems that have affected destinations and local communities in virtually every corner of the world. To overcome the problems of mass tourism, many governments, businesses, communities, and tourism organizations have turned to alternative types of tourism development. One such alternat...

Abstract: - Contemporary tourism is a social and especially a cultural process; it is a way o life of today's man. Up to modern times, the basic social relations represented a function of social proximity. The local communities, with a local cultural environment, sharing fundamental values, have eased the definitions of identity by the individuals...

Abstract— There are many studies talking about the "anonymity" in which our country is sinking, in terms of international tourist identity, of the symbols that define us. The economy of knowledge facilitates the collaboration between cultural professionals worldwide, the small-scale specialization stage being surpassed. This phenomenon leads to the...

Abstract — European Union has successfully developed such competitive economic agglomerations on the basis of public or private initiative, the "cluster policy" becoming an important element of innovation policy in the Member States, which supports an approach based on regional innovative clusters, not only in developed urban centers areas but also...

There are many studies talking about the "anonymity" in which our country is sinking, in terms of international tourist identity, of the symbols that define us. We have never known how to promote ourselves using the unique elements that we have and not because we do not have these unique features, but because it is possible that we do not know or w...

Destination, or the terminus of tourists’ holidays, is a complex element linking geography (with all the resources – anthropic and natural – made available to tourists) and tourism (with all the activities that they can carry out and services that they can consume during their stay). The complexity of the destination is that it represents a product...

The urban areas play an important role in achieving the objectives of the EU Strategy for Sustainable Development. The environmental, the economic and social dimensions interfere the hardest inside the urban areas. A high quality of the urban environment also contributes to achieving the priority of the revised Lisbon Strategy, which aims 'to make...

The quality management and the environment management are components of management in general. There are complementary relations and conceptual equivalences between the standards of the ISO 14000 group (environment) and those of the ISO 9000 group (quality) and suppose the complementarity has one of the systems already functioning, and we can use i...

Together with the Internet, e-business and the new economy era, in general, fundamental transformation of the social and economic structure take place. In parallel, the assaults on the standard economic science amplify, in the sense of some conceptual reformulations and of some reinterpretations of the economic phenomena and laws. Besides the class...

To be able to promote itself efficiently on the market, a destination, given the marketing perspective – has to be aware about the authentic and crucial elements of its own identity as being the only way to transfer, virtually and materially, of what it has best – the social-cultural and artistic identity (which, from a tourist perspective, represe...

Bien que les prévisions de base pour le tourisme et le Voyage en Roumanie au cours des 10 prochaines années sont généralement très positifs, ils mettent en évidence certaines faiblesses qui peuvent entraver le développement du tourisme et de Voyage. WTTC dit qu'ils peuvent empêcher la Roumanie pour atteindre son véritable potentiel dans le tourisme...

Romanian Black Sea coastline stretches over a length of about 240 km, between Ukraine and Bulgaria, from the Danube Delta in north to Vama Veche coastal town, situated on the border with Bulgaria. The coastline is arranged and exploited for tourist purposes only for a distance of about 82 km, from Cape Midia (the North) and to the Bulgarian border...

As a management of quality, the educational management becomes a scientific instrument generating future, performance and efficiency, a relatively new paradigm of approaching pedagogy, a necessary methodological stage in order to achieve efficiency in the activity of training and developing the human personality. The purpose of this paper is to hig...

Abstract: The increase of the competition of prices and of the better-organised and cheaper destinations network on other continents emphasises the pressure on the European tourist sector and on the traditional destinations. More destinations compete based on experience, and a larger transparency of the market in terms of prices and/or other compar...

Abstract: - Internationally, Tourism can make an essential contribution to economic recovery and is acknowledged as playing a vital role in the transformation into a green economy (World Tourism Organization,2010).In this respect nature-based tourism experiences evidently can become a significant feature of sustainable development. Globalization ha...

Through the geopolitical position that it holds within the continent, Romania enjoys a great advantage over competing countries. Romania is located at the crossroads of the most important trade routes of the continent: midway between the northern and southern Europe, and on the road linking Western Europe to Asia. This advantage can be developed in...

Considering itself as a unique market, the European Union has the most developed economy from the sector of Travels and Tourism, now representing a share of approximately 40% of the world market. Obviously, its share has grown significantly during the last few years, according to the EU extension beyond its initial borders to the current 27 member...

Statistics represent an essential element of the information system and occupies a special place in the information supply regarding the status and trends of country's economic, social, demographic and tourism development. The transformations of the global economy driven by the liberalization of the global trade and modern information technologies,...

Motto: "Sustainable development, recognizing the interdependence of the three systems, and given the necessity of the scientific understanding of the ecosystems function involves a profound change of mentality in the social system" 1 Abstract: Economic branch of interference, of great interest and important availability, Romanian tourism should bec...

In the context of a global economy, the sustainable development strategy of Romania must emphasize the catalyst factors of economic and social change, in order to promote economic growth. At the same time, the strategy must be sufficiently flexible for the adaptation to shocks and change processes. The complex of negative factors (the status of the...

Over the past six decades, tourism has experienced continued growth and diversification to become one of the largest and fastest growing economic sectors in the world. Over time, more and more destinations have opened up and invested in tourism development, turning modern tourism into a key driver for socioeconomic progress. Tourism has become one...

It is a well-known fact that tourism involves commercial exchanges, commitments, development and cultural sustainability, towards the tranquillity and the satisfaction of the people's aspirations. The world crisis means a moment of incertitude, but opens, also, immense possibilities. It is true that we face one of the highest economic deficits from...

The branding is the key to success for any tourist destination and Romania has started, in this very direction, the process for repositioning itself on the international market. The creation of a tourism brand for Romania shall open the gates for the eyes and hearts of foreigners and it shall become a historic accomplishment for the future of our t...

The intensive development of tourism represents a unique challenge in history. That is why we have to be prepared that in the 21st century we should cope with the "avalanche" represented by the quality of life, especially related to the food quantity and quality needs and the greater need of people to recover rapidly and pleasantly through holidays...

Over the years, globalisation was given different conceptions, which reached the point of the introduction of the verb “to globalise”- first time appeared in 1944, in Merriam Webster Dictionary. Previous to that it only existed the concepts of “global” and “globalisation”. Through global it is understood an extension of the different connections be...

Business tourism is one of the most dynamic components of tourism activity, and enhancing international relations, especially the economic ones are reflected in the increased demand for business travel. Business tourism is a form of tourism with commercial, government or education purposes, with the leisure side as a secondary motivation. Business...

Destination, or the terminus of tourists' holiday, is a complex link between geography (with all the resources -human and natural -it offers you) and tourism (with all the activities they can undertake and services they can consume during the stay). The services forming the tourist product/products offered/given at a destination, and which must be...