English Terms Highly Used In Romanian And Spanish Tourism Terminology

Qualitative variables have a big importance in economy, being associated to a big number of economic processes and phenomena. In economic-mathematic modeling process, the main problem which needs to be solved is to express numerically the level of such variables, especially if their importance is big, or if qualitative effects worth to be considered. Measuring of qualitative variables give the chance of input them in quantitative kind models that would help mostly to reduce the degree of indetermination and therefore, to a fuller explanation of the evolution of economic phenomena. An important number of terms currently used in tourism are of English origin. If we consider Romanian and Spanish tourism terminology, although there are corresponding terms in these languages that express the same concept in tourism, the present-day tendency is to prefer and use the English terms at all levels of specialization. This preference is an image of globalization, a sign of the international and worldwide feature of today’s tourism. From the quantitative point of view, the English influence in tourism terminology is significant, especially at the mass-level communication. Despite their extensive use, Anglicisms do not make difficult the decoding of the message, sometimes being used together with explanations, terms or equivalent syntagms, all these facilitating the access to the specialized meaning in tourism.