Stefan Dombay

Babeş-Bolyai University | UBB · Department of Geography for extensions - Gheorgheni

The purpose of this study is to contribute to the sustainable development of ecotourism through spatial analysis. The aim of the study was to identify suitable locations for various types of ecotourism activities and infrastructure development. This was achieved using multiple criteria analysis and spatial thinking as the foundation for decision-ma...

The purpose of this study is to contribute to the sustainable development of ecotourism through spatial analysis. The aim of the study was to identify suitable locations for various types of ecotourism activities and infrastructure development. This was achieved using multiple criteria analysis and spatial thinking as the foundation for decision-ma...

In this paper we tried to study the values of radiant temperatures (Land Surface Temperature) and NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) for areas occupied by buildings and green spaces. The area affected by the Urban Heat Island (UHI) was also determined. Study Area, Iasi, the largest city in eastern Romania, is geographically situated on l...

Climate change is a fact that we face year after year. Although is a common syntagma its manifestation is different for various region of the planet producing not just global, but local anomalies and changes. In order to track these changes, we propose a network model with preferential attachment, vertices representing successive time periods. The...

criterii de evaluare a potentialului turistic al regiunilor vulcanice, cu aplicatii la Muntii Harghita

Unforeseen Evacuation Vulnerability Assessment for Targu-Mures Using Critical Cluster Model. As safety becomes a very important concept the evolving society want to offer proper procedures to keep the population in safe and to rise the sense of security in people. With all these unforeseen hazardous events are present in everyday life and their pro...

In the last decades the ecotourism become ever so popular in the protected natural areas. This form of tourism is more and more used as a new science which can reflect the new coordinates and trends for the development of the tourism industry on a global scale. In the beginning it was applied only in the natural protected areas, and step by step it...

This study is meant to reveal the variety and role of the hydro-mineral resources from the southern sector of the Harghita Volcanic Mountain chain and emphasizes the sustainability of a territory with a poorly developed and diversified economy, which shows a high rate of unemployment and an aging process and a high value of immigration among the yo...

Climate change is a reality which is observed not only by scientists but also by the population. In our study, we want to make a preliminary research on whether this change is reflected on tourism seasonality in Romania. Therefore, we took tourist flow and temperature data for the 35 most important touristic locations and calculated a seasonality i...

Handling data dump created by digitization is a challenge for almost every field of expertise. This is also true for map based data, where the spatial location contained in the map itself is able to provide an organization pattern. Our online application integrates on a single map data from three different sources of the historical past. In additio...

Structural Vulnerability and Risk Assessment of Harghita County’s Inner Road Network. Road transportation systems has become indispensable in everyday life. They have a high importance in global economic circuit, thus their vulnerability and risk analysis is indispensable. In this paper we want to make an intrinsic characterization the road network...

In environmental researches several concerns on the evolution of temperatures. However, in the last decade we can observe intensification of extreme events, including that of temperatures. The present research investigates the evolution of extreme temperature values scaled at annual scale using frequency analysis on historical data. Three types of...

Hiking can bring together different people with different fitness level. To not to depart too much from each other resting places should be introduced. In some cases it’s important to know the optimal locations of these places as they can be arranged with benches and tables. Our research focuses on developing a parameterized algorithm which can pre...

Lacu Rosu Resort is one of the most well known resorts in Harghita County, and justly famous all around the country and abroad as well. It is the resort with the most transitory visitors in Harghita County. Its immense potential is derived from its natural resources. The resort itself has been developing since the 1890’s but could never grow to a l...

The study reveals the role of hydromineral resources in the sustainability of a territory which presents a poorly diversified economy, and high values of unemployment paired with an aging population and high values of emigration among the young people. Case studies analyzed (Lăzăreşti village and Băile Tușnad towns, Harghita county, Romania) offer...

Harghita Mountain represents a neogene volcanic edifice within the eastern chain of Eastern Carpathians. The identified and evaluated geomorposites within this publication stands out the touristic potential of them as the interest of local al regional tourists who visits the region. The analysis of volcanic geomorphosites in Harghita Mountains is a...

The town of Băile Tușnad (Tușnad Spa, Tusnádfürdő) is the most important tourism centre in Harghita County, aspect favoured, besides the mineral water resources, by its position on an important road and rail route. In time, due to successive upgrades, it has become one of the most important mountain spas in Romania, classified as a national importa...

The mountain region offers a spectacular view and scenery for all visitors, but not all attractions are above the surface. This is the case of our study, to show, that the Hasmasu-Mare, Cheile Bicazului National Park attracting lots of tourists, but just around the bend, at a stone-throw of the main road lies the Sugau Cave natural reservation and...

Minimum hiking time calculus can be used to assess the maximum area where a lost person can be. Such area delimitation can help rescue teams to efficiently organize their missions. The two well known walking time rules was used to determine, compare and correlate the obtained result in a test area. The calculated times has a high correlation coeffi...

Since the Internet as a communication and distribution channel left its experimental state it has changed the approach to marketing communication. Considering the rapid growth of Romania's tourism market, small tourism enterprizes such as guesthouses also began to keep up with the newest marketing communication trends. The paper emphasizes the impo...

The Central Metaliferi Mountains, situated in south-central side of the Apuseni Mountains, have a variety of natural and anthropic touristic potential, but, unfortunately, less known and not enough exploited. After conducting a survey in Geoagiu Spa we specifically recommend the following: increased number of one day tours, which are the main touri...

sszefoglalás -Azon tényezők alapján, amelyek egy települést jellemeznek és befolyásolják annak fejlődését (a település típusa, a társadalmi-politikai potenciál, a települések rendszerében elfoglalt hely, a közigazgatási szerep) kiemeltünk 5 hierarchikus szintet a Szilágysági-dombok településein. Kettőt a városi településeknél, hármat a falusi telep...