Romania is a member of the European Union since the of January 2007 and in this quality has to achieve international standards regarding the travel agencies activities. Taking all this into consideration, the present paper attempts some direct research on the impact that becoming a member of the European Union has on the activity of travel agencies in Romania. The main aspects analysed here are the influence that becoming a member of the UE has on the sales volume of the travel agencies in our country and, with the help of the Chi-Square test, the correlation between the size of the agency and the sales volume owed to becoming a member of the European Union. At the end, the paper presents the main advantages and disadvantages that Romania's. membership of the European Union has had on the Romanian travel agencies.
