TERMINOLOGIA ÎN DOMENIUL TURISMULUI. ISTORIC ȘI APLICATIVITATE. TOURISM TERMINOLOGY. HISTORY AND USE

Tourism as a social and economic phenomenon does not have a long history, its development began in the XVIII th  century . Over the decades that followed, tourism has evolved into an industry, imposing a spectacular development in the contemporary era and became one of the  profitable branches of the  international economy. As a sub-branch of the economy, tourism, defined as a socio-economic phenomenon, is an industry designed to obtain satisfactions  generated by the human need for knowledge, recreation and recovery. Starting from the fact that any phenomenon indicates its durability through its  penetration into the language, we would like to mention that tourism, creates its own language, its own vocabulary and it is  easy to understand that terminology addressing tourism today is very diverse and extensive. We should mention here that the tourism terminology in the current  Romanian language involves a gradual evolution historically, being registered  the emergence and changes in concepts and terms, in connection with the dynamic evolution of this activity. A term used at a time changes, updating and developing it is determined by the characteristics of representativeness of time. With this in mind, we attempt to present some historical aspects in the development of tourism terminology.