摘要：Tourism and sustainable development are the subject of many initiatives and public orprivate debates in Romania. The main problem to which these initiatives try to find an answer is mostlyrelated to the income generation for the local communities by using rationally and efficiently the localpotential, in agreement with the economic, social, natural, and cultural factors. Consequently, somemeasures should be taken, and the tourist sector as a whole needs all the methods of sustainabledevelopment: new technologies, change of social behaviour, change of environmental legislation, methods ofenvironmental management, better planning and development of control procedures. In this article, wepresented a model of tourism development which should be applied in all the regions of great touristattraction, and we realised a synthesis of the socio-economic advantages of sustainable tourism
关键词：tourism; sustainable development; lasting development
