Tourism Development in the Borderlands of Romania: A Case Study of the Danube Gorge–Iron Gates

Quaestiones Geographicae

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Andrei-Florin Băbăț¹  Sorin Pavel² 

[1] Department of Geography, University of Craiova;Department of Geography, West University of Timisoara

关键词: border;    tourism;    Danube Gorge;    ecotourism;    infrastructure;   

DOI  :  10.14746/quageo-2022-0037

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Walter de Gruyter GmbH

【 摘 要 】

Border areas are a real challenge for tourism development. Usually associated with the periphery from a socio-economic point of view, these areas often have natural potential and attractive landscapes that have been little transformed by human activity and numerous historical and cultural tourist attractions. Although these areas have considerable tourism potential, this is not sufficient for the sustainable development of tourism and the exploitation of this potential is strongly influenced by the degree of permeability of the border. This is the case of the Romanian-Serbian border, which overlaps the most spectacular sector of the Danube – the Iron Gates Gorge. The main aim of this article is to analyse the role of tourism in the development of border areas and how it functions in a particular territorial context: the Danube Gorge located at the border between Romania and Serbia. The Romanian-Serbian border currently functions as an external border of the European Union in a favourable historical and political context, given the tradition of good neighbourliness between the two entities, the states located on either side of the Danube.

【 授权许可】

CC BY