THE MACROECONOMIC IMPACT OF ROMANIAN TOURISM

Tourism is an important driver of global economic system, playing a leading role both in the economic life and social action contributing to the tourism potential of each individual country and economic growth, improving living conditions. Romania has a huge tourism potential represented by the natural environment and natural resources, human resources, customs and traditions, a potential which unfortunately is not used to the wholes value. The paper aimed to analyze the evolution of Romanian tourism receipts in GDP, by share, positioning on the place 151 and by evolution of tourism receipts per capita in Romania compared to World average, positioning Romania on the place 103 out from 172 countries during the time 2003-2011, according to the information’s provided by Data World Bank .