REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF TOURISM TURNOVER IN THE SOUTH-EAST DEVELOPMENT REGION

Abstract

In the current national and European framework, concerns have been intensified regarding the analysis of territorial disparities in a more comprehensive, multidimensional vision. In this respect, the study of the way in which tourism turnover is distributed at territorial level may be a way of providing us economic performance indices of the analyzed territorial systems. In this study we propose the analysis of the territorial distribution of tourism turnover within the South-East Development Region and to identify its importance in the development of local economies. Thus, a tourism from turnover database was made for each territorial administrative unit from the South East Development Region, for the period 2000-2016. This database was used for GIS representation of turnover distribution at the territorial administrative unit level, both in terms of evolution and in territorial aspect. As a result of the applied methodology, regional disparities were revealed in the distribution of tourism turnover but also how territorial systems have responded economically to structural shocks.