Private air transport and its implications on tourism

Abstract

The role of transport services in the tourism sector is very important – the tourist has to travel in order to reach a destination. The current economic crisis has profound implications on the entire world economy, also affecting national economies. Transport and tourism are important industries and their role in the overall economic development cannot be neglected. This paper explores the implications of private air transport on the evolution of tourism in Romania. We analyse a set of indicators that is important for the dynamics of these industries and the correlation degree between the tourist traffic indicators and some of the air transport indicators. We apply various econometric and statistical methods as the correlation coefficient and the regression method. The identification of these correlations is necessary for conceiving strategies of neutralisation of negative effects or of enhancement of positive influences in relation to tourism evolution.

Keywords: Private air transport, tourism, demand, supply, tourism evolution.