Size of Unauthorized Tourism of the Danube Delta: Causes, Effects, Solutions

In recent years, in Romania, the phenomenon of unauthorized tourism has assumed alarming extent. Along with agro hostels authorized, Delta area is animated too, by type of pensions unauthorized increasingly numerous. The objective of this paper is to analyze the authorized and unauthorized tourism by Danube Delta in order to see who the true is the dimension of classified tourism by the National Authority for Tourism and identify some solutions becoming legal businesses. As a working method, we applied a questionnaire authorized administrators of rural tourism within the Danube Delta. The sample consisted of 31 respondents who answered a series of 13 questions about their activities and relevant authorizing units. Reasons for representatives of rural tourism unauthorized choose not to authorize are the most diverse, from low income, up to the bureaucracy and high taxes imposed by local and central governments.