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Smart Tourist Village—An Entrepreneurial Necessity for Maramures Rural Area

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  • Ramona Ciolac

    (Faculty of Management and Rural Tourism, Banat’s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine “King Michael I of Romania”, Calea Aradului No. 119, 300645 Timisoara, Romania)

  • Tiberiu Iancu

    (Faculty of Management and Rural Tourism, Banat’s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine “King Michael I of Romania”, Calea Aradului No. 119, 300645 Timisoara, Romania)

  • Gabriela Popescu

    (Faculty of Management and Rural Tourism, Banat’s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine “King Michael I of Romania”, Calea Aradului No. 119, 300645 Timisoara, Romania)

  • Tabita Adamov

    (Faculty of Management and Rural Tourism, Banat’s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine “King Michael I of Romania”, Calea Aradului No. 119, 300645 Timisoara, Romania)

  • Andrea Feher

    (Faculty of Management and Rural Tourism, Banat’s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine “King Michael I of Romania”, Calea Aradului No. 119, 300645 Timisoara, Romania)

  • Sorin Stanciu

    (Faculty of Management and Rural Tourism, Banat’s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine “King Michael I of Romania”, Calea Aradului No. 119, 300645 Timisoara, Romania)

Abstract

The necessity of entrepreneurship in rural area is an actual one. A smart entrepreneurial variant of contemporary village’s development could be “the smart tourist village”, to capitalize rural resources. Thus, in this research we come to a variant of contemporary village’s development, respectively “smart tourist village”, which is the basic idea of the work. To demonstrate that the notion of “smart tourist village” can be a future idea of sustainable rural entrepreneurship the steps undertaken were: the identification of the representative aspects of the villages from Maramures and of their specific resources presentation of the specific aspects; the study also made a quantitative presentation of the rural tourism infrastructure from Maramures by localities; and identifies the perception and “vision” of tourists and owners of tourist structures about Maramures tourist village as an innovative solution with benefits for tourists and locals. The information collected by using the method of qualitative case study served to sketch a possible projection such as “smart tourist village” taking into account the possible costs, return on investment, possible design and advantages.

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  • Ramona Ciolac & Tiberiu Iancu & Gabriela Popescu & Tabita Adamov & Andrea Feher & Sorin Stanciu, 2022. "Smart Tourist Village—An Entrepreneurial Necessity for Maramures Rural Area," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(14), pages 1-27, July.
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