Integration of Romanian tourism into the national policy for sustainable development

Starting from 1990 the Tourism Sustainable Development in Europe became a major problem of the European Institutions. From the beginning of 2007 Romania became a member of European Union. The Romanian national strategies assume that tourism is influenced by economic, social and environmental objectives at national and local level by setting out a national tourism strategy that is based on knowledge of environmental resources, and is integrated with national and regional sustainable development plans. So they established a national tourism strategy that is updated periodically and a master plan for tourism sustainable development and management. These intend to integrate conservation of environmental resources into all such strategies and enhance prospects for economic development and employment while maintaining protection of the environment. We debated in this paper these aspects using also important results from Global Competitiveness Report 2006-2007 made by World Economic Forum (WEF).