Education Strategies for the Development of Ecotourism in Maramures
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management, education, ecotourismAbstract
After the Covid-19 pandemic, a lot has changed. People have become more responsible for the environment, but the hunger to visit, see places, to know traditions has increased. Ecotourism, the only type of sustainable tourism, is still growing and its development requires a major investment in educating the staff involved, tourists, schoolchildren and teachers for all disciplines, of at all levels of education. It is known that the first educators of a child are the parents, so the first people we must attract to the learning process are the parents, then children, teachers, colleagues at work.
Romania has areas that lend themselves to ecotourism such as the Apuseni Mountains, Maramureş, Bucovina, the Danube Delta, but the level of knowledge of the principles of ecotourism by those who can offer these services and by tourists based on observations made between June 2020 and June 2022, is quite low.
In this article we present using the observation method, the results obtained during the years, studying the behavior of tourists and employees from Maramureş, taking into account the principles of ecotourism and establishing a strategy to attract the population (employees and tourists) to ecotourism, a strategy based on education.
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This work is supported by project POCU 153770, entitled " Accessibility of advanced research for sustainable economic development - ACADEMIKA ", co-financed by the European Social Fund under the Human Capital Operational Program 2014-2020
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