CLIMATIC SUITABILITY FOR TOURISM ACTIVITIES IN CONSTANTA COUNTY (ROMANIA)

References: 13th SGEM GeoConference on Energy And Clean Technologies, www.sgem.org, SGEM2013 Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-619-7105-03-2 / ISSN 1314-2704, June 16-22, 2013, 585 - 592 pp

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the climatic suitability for touristic activities in Constanta county so that the valorization of the services in this domain should be as lucrative as possible. It was thus observed that the impact of climate on tourism is manifested firstly at the level of psychology, bad weather becoming through its inconveniences an obstacle rarely overcome by the tourist. This paper emphasizes the degree of involvement of the main climatic elements such as nebulosity, frequency of precipitations and their aggregation state, air temperature, winds etc in the definition of the notion “good weather”, using two indicators : The climatic-balneary index and the climatic-touristic index.

Keywords: climate, Constanta county, balneary, tourism