摘要：With all inevitable limits, the arrival of foreign visitors at borders can be considered one of the most sensitive indicators to the modifications of the internal and external environment, being the result of the correlated actions of several factors: - objective factors, essential and systematic, that reflect tendency; - seasonal and repeatable factors, that reflect fluctuations revolving around trend; - particular factors, specific to the respective period, of a conjunctural nature (short term), or of a structural nature(long term). The arrival of foreigners is one of the first indicators that signaled the inevitability of crisis. The systematic influential factors such as the size of the demand and the touristic potential, the geographical distance and the accessibility of the infrastructure, the prestige and opportunities of the touristic zones, have not managed to contract the negative effects of foreign visitors anticipations, especially about the reduction of future incomes.
关键词：tourism statistics; international touristic flows; the arrival of foreign;visitors.
