Globalizare şi agroturism

Abstract

The paper deals with two issues: globalisation and agritourism. The term globalisation refers specifically to economic globalisation, meaning the integration of national economies into the international economy, through trade, foreign investment, capital flows, migration and the spread of technology, but it can also refer to circulation of ideas, languages or popular culture. Agritourism is a kind of vacation that normally takes place in a farm. Eager to leave the much too stressful modern cities, tourists are in search of peaceful, nice, relaxing, simple places where there is a chance to help with farming during the visit. The two interconnect and influence each other at different levels: from the point of view of the agritourism, the globalisation has on the one hand several advantages such as the free crossing of borders, inviting foreign tourists by presenting special offers; but, on the other hand, there are also some disadvantages such as changing the very being of traditional villages and, with them, even the traditions themselves risk to become superficial.