To browse Academia. The city of Cluj-Napoca is one of the biggest from Romania, an important academic, cultural and business centre, combine with a various tourist offer - cultural and historical monuments, a diversified portfolio of accommodation establishments, restaurants, clubs, tourist agencies and an attractive natural-geographic space. All those make from Cluj-Napoca an interesting tourist destination for various type of tourist. The paper. This paper intend to present the authors' point of view regarding the creation of a tourist information centre in the home town, Cluj-Napoca.
The present situation regarding the tourist information centres at Romania's level could and should be improved and Cluj-Napoca is among those cities which need such a centre. The structure of this centre and the involvement of interested stakeholders would be presented below, along with the importance of such a centre for Cluj-Napoca. Tourism industry represents the sector with the highest development at global level.
Romania has an important tourism potential and, in the last period, the authorities try to exploit this opportunity. Cluj-Napoca is one of Romania's most important cities from the number of citizens' point of view, also due to its business environment and cultural attractiveness. Cluj county stands on the sixth place in Romanian destinations classification, taking into account the number of lodging capacities, but Cluj-Napoca -the municipality of the county -is situated on the third place after Bucharest and Timisoara using the same criteria.
The paper identifies the main tourist segment on the market and analyses the perception of tourists regarding Cluj-Napoca as a tourist destination. We used for our study personal interviews based on a questioner applied to a representative sample and empirical research analysing statistical data and other available information about the destination. We compared the tourist resources of Cluj-Napoca with the target profile and we analysed the place of cultural tourism for the destination.
Romania's tourism potential remained largerly unexplored during the last 17 years due to the attention given to traditional tourism products: sun tourism at Black Sea and ski tourism during the winter. In , WTTC recommended cultural and heritage tourism to become an important tourism product for Romania. The attraction points are numerous, various and interesting. Tourism stakeholders can create independent and complex products in order to promote Romania as a cultural tourist destination.
