摘要:The Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, with a surface of 5800 km2 within
which 20 strictly protected areas are delimited, summing-up 506 km2
, with
corresponding buffer areas bringing the area to 2233 km2 and economic areas
which widen the surface under scrutiny to 3061 km2
had a very good reason to
become a biosphere reserve in the year 1990. The Danube Delta was declared a
biosphere reserve due to its morpho-hydrographic bio-geographic and landscape
uniqueness in Europe as regards bio-diversity, ecosystems and habitats
characteristic to the Delta-specific humid environment The complex landscape
(relief, water, vegetation, fauna, population and human settlements) within the
Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve has attracted ever since the second half of the
20th century numerous tourists having come to enrich their knowledge and for
recreation purposes. The originality of Romania’s tourist potential is a
representative feature of the tourist product that Romania can supply, as promoted
on the internal and external tourist market respectively, however not at the level of
its true potential. The new statute of the Danube Delta, as a biosphere reserve,
following the year 1990, meant a change of direction and reorganizing of the tourist
activity, in the context of protecting biodiversity and the landscape and of a
sustainable turning to good account of the renewable natural resources. The assets
of the natural tourist potential are completed by the anthropic potential, there
resulting an indivisible, unique complex, specific to the Danube Delta Biosphere
Reserve. Overall, tourism is one of the major components of the social and
economic life, having become nowadays an economic sector with tangible
development resources. Due to the fact that the Danube Delta is a geographic
environment under permanent formation, fragile and vulnerable, the impact of
tourism in general can be felt at the level of the natural and anthropic habitats, with
major consequences on the whole ecological balance. Since tourism is a main
development vector, it is necessary to pay the utmost attention to the consequences
of this activity on all the other sectors of activity. Tourism must represent not only
a positive and dynamic development factor but also a practical solution to keeping
the environment unaltered.
关键词:Danube Delta; natural and anthropic tourist potential; tourismenvironment;
sustainable development