Risk Assessment In Tourism Enterprises

Until now, in our research we have found and we have worked with clearer significance of specific terminology, we would like to clarify our opinion about what risk is, what risk management is, what risk administration is, what is risk pilotage, what are the differences between risks and risk management in industry and risks and risk management in tourism enterprises, what are the specific risks for tourism enterprises and what are the differences between risk management and crises management. In this paper we want to present our methodology of risk assessment in tourism enterprises because we have found many methods for risk assessment but, in our opinion, these are not fit for tourism enterprises, and also they are based on results, not on perception. We want to ground this method on specific risk for tourism enterprises and on perception of these risks at top management level, before that risk are materialized. The first part of this methodology is based on a research from some centerpieces from Romania but we made it specific for tourism, and the second part is based on perception of risk variable. This methodology helps us to identify and hierarchy the main specific risks in tourism enterprises from Romania and to quantify these risks. In order to realize that, we want to disseminate the questionnaire at top management. With this questionnaire we want to identify the respondents by some characteristics, to identify the level of risk management in this enterprises, to assess risk at the level of sample and measure the perception of risks. By the results gathered - questioning top management from Romanian tourism enterprises - we hope to validate our methodology for risk assessment because we would like to help the increase of our tourism, being an important field for our country.