SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY IN ROMANIAN TOURISM

Abstract

Tourism efficiency presents the common defining characteristics for all branches and activities from the economy. In the same time, the specificity of this area, reflected in the variety and the nature of the consumed resources, the complexity and variety of the processes which take place, the diversity of the externalization forms of its results marks the efficiency of its own determination and particularities.

The efficiency depends on efforts and effects, but not least on their assessment methods, on the fact that the value realized through prices includes the inflation and other influences, distort the real result of the activities performed. Under these circumstances, a complex and correct analysis, should take into account also other elements like: the structure of the resources and results, time, the quality of the effects and their impact. The efficiency, in this context has a wide and comprehensive meaning referring to the types of usage of all resource categories: natural, human, material and financial in all the components of the activity: production, trade, and service, to their qualitative, quantitative, economic, social, direct and indirect aspects.