Tourism as an efficient way of protecting cultural heritage

Through this article, the authors debate the issue of relations between cultural heritage
objects and tourism. Like any phenomena of contemporary society, tourism, which capitalizes on the
cultural heritage of a society, can have positive but also negative effects. Here it matters a lot to have
effective tools for reducing the negative effect of cultural heritage tourism and increasing mechanisms
with a positive effect. In their arguments, the authors refer to international practice, but also
to the experience of the Republic of Moldova in this relationship between culture and tourism. Only
establishing balance in this equation can give tourism a connotation of safeguarding cultural heritage.