Analysis Of The Correlation Between The Existing Accommodation Capacity And The Number Of Tourists Arrived In Suceava County Structures Of Touristic Reception

In the international touristic practice, but also in the specialized literature, it is perceived the population’s trend to spend the leisure time in an active way, by practicing tourism. It is also noted the fact that the forms of tourism organized in the big crowded centers, with fixed, rigid, monotonous programs, with journeys from a crowded environment to another, don’t satisfy anymore the tourists’ aspirations, motivations, options. They prefer the countryside zones that offer a non-polluted environment, with a natural and cultural potential very slightly altered. Such an area, which is inscribed in the rich heritage of the Romanian tourism, is Suceava County, which, by its offer, may be envisaged as an exceptional touristic zone of Romania. Suceava County, Bârsa Land’s progress demands the inclusion of the principals of the lasting regional development in its development strategy. Within this framework, the importance of studying and analyzing the touristic activity’s evolution can be noted. The need of acknowledging the fluctuations registered by the results of the touristic activity deployment allowed the approach of the issue related to the correlation stage between the existing accommodation capacity and the number of tourists arrived in the accommodation structures of Suceava County during the 2000-2006 period. The mutual involvement relationship, the existence, the direction, the form and the intensity of the connection between the two indicators are analyzed in this paper. The conclusions stated following the analysis of the obtained result, represent an upper step for filling in the image regarding the regional tourism activity in the conditions of the establishment and application of certain regional lasting development strategies.