Tourism and its Impact on the Economy

Tourism is an activity whose content can have a positive or negative impact on the economy of a country seen as a tourist destination.Seen as an economic activity, tourism involves costs determined by the use of the specific technical and material basis of tourism, the use of human resources, but also by attracting tourists and capitalizing on natural and man-made resources that have tourism value.If initially tourism was seen as an economic activity that has only a positive economic impact on a tourist destination, materialized in the revenues it generates for service providers, local communities and the central state budget, in the jobs created and in satisfying the consumption motivations of tourists, later on the negative implications of tourism on the natural, social and cultural environment were also taken into account.Therefore the purpose of this paper is to highlight these issues.