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ISSN: 2247-6172;
ISSN-L: 2247-6172
Review of Applied Socio- Economic Research
(Volume 5, Issue 1/ 2013 ), pp. 162
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Wine tourism, a possible advantage of the Timis County
Cipriana Sava 1 +
1 Faculty of Tourism and Commercial Management Timisoara,
“D. Cantemir” Christian University Bucharest, Romania
Abstract: Tourism has known along its development multiple types and forms. Their appearance was influenced by
the existence of natural and anthropic tourist resources and by the potential tourists’ motivation.
Wine, considered the „Gods’ liquor”, has its story, and through wine tourism people can know it. The Timis County
has wines well-known at national and international level, and the possibility of visiting a vineyard, a winery and
tasting the local wines can attract visitors. Wine tourism can contribute significantly to tourism development in this
county, which is why I tried to highlight here the main points of interest.
Key words: tourism, wine tourism, wineries, visitors.
JEL codes: L66, L83.
1. Introduction
Tourism is the activity whose development was influenced by the existence of natural and anthropic tourist
resources, but also by the potential tourists’ motivation. Motivation is the main element that influences the
buying decision of a tourist product and its consumption. It is personal and subjective, determined by a serious of
endogenous (psychological) and exogenous (environmental) impulses. Tourists’ motivations are varied and
multiple, from their need to recreation to that of knowledge. All these generate a series of types of tourism:
- leisure;
- recreational;
- cultural;
- sports;
- ethnic;
- business;
- wine;
- technical;
- scientific.