Abstract EN:

Bucovina is one of the most important tourist area of Romania. Its particular interest takes into account its rich heritage. The variety of its landscapes or its fascinating painted monasteries, recognized by UNESCO, is among its main assets which made local and national actors consider tourism as a possible way of development. The analysis of the process of its tourist use on a temporal scale of more than two centuries shows a fluctuation of stagnant and dynamic periods. Tourism, today in full expansion, tends to put the patrimonial resources in the centre of various concerns and interests, following a multifaceted action. The environmental issue proves that human responsibility is determinant in this respect. The environmental aspect occupies today a new place regarding strategies of tourism development both in designing and implementing them. This new type of development (i. E. Sustainable development) requires mainly that all actors (State, collectivities, local population and tourists), whose roles have to be clearly defined, actively contribute to defining and valorizing an assemblage of tourist spaces broadly re-composed. The classical spaces (mountainous, urban and rural spaces), which allow the assessment of the diversity of touristic practices, may tomorrow be joined by others: the cultural spaces. Finally, the future of tourism in Bucovina will depend on the choices of the political actors, of the local collectivities and populations, as well as, last but not least, of tourists. Facing all perspectives, the environmental factor should find itself in the centre of the debates.