Opportunities for Developing of New Forms of Accommodation in Brasov Tourist Destination

• Author: Voicu M. - Albu R.G.
• Position: Brasov Holliday Apartments - Transilvania University of Brasov
• Pages: 81-88

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşo v

Series V: Economic Sciences • Vol. 11 (60) No. 1 - 2018

OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPING NEW FORMS

OF ACCOMMODATION IN THE BRASOV TOURIST

DESTINATION

M. VOICU1 R. G. ALBU2

Abstract: The accommodation units are a necessary component of tourist

destination development, and the quality and diversification of the

accommodation services offered will influence the type of tourists who want

to visit the destination. The main purpose of the qualitative research

presented in this paper was to study the possibility of introducing a new

form of accommodation in Brasov as tourist destination and, more precisely,

the extent to which "hotel apartments" are among the tourists’ present and

future options. The paper also analyses aspects regarding the typology of the

accommodation units, classification possibilities and the advantages that the

introduction and development of these forms of accommodation in the

tourist destination of Brasov could bring.

Key words: tourists, forms of accommodation, tourist destination, hotel

apartments.

1. Introduction

Accommodation units represent (http://statistici.insse.ro/shop/) any building or

settlement which provides accommodation and other specific services for tourists

permanently or seasonally. The main accommodation structures existing in the tourist

infrastructure of our country are the hotel, the youth hostel, the hostel, the hotel

apartment, the motel, the inn, the tourist villa, the tourist cottage, the hunting and

fishing hut, the bungalow, the holiday village, the tourist stopping, the agritourist

boarding houses, the accommodation on sea and river vessels etc.

(http://statistici.insse.ro/shop/).

In Europe, 2016 registered over 608 thousand to urist accommodation establishments

with more than 31 million bed places (http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-

explained/index.php/Tourism_statistics). Figure no.1 presents the EU countries with the

highest number of accommodation establishments

(http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/sh ow.do?dataset=tour_cap_nat&lang=en).

1 Brasov Holliday Apartments, andreamonica.voicu@yahoo.com

2 Transilvania University of Braşov, ruxandra.albu@unitbv.ro