Lucaciu Gheorghe

Physical and Psycho-social Changes in Mountain Tourism Lucaciu Gheorghe

Often, mountain tourism is seen as an opportunity to conquer a peak or just the opportunity to see something. Anything. Mountain tourism is more than that. It is the opportunity to see natural wonders, to bow respectfully before the "gods of the mountains", to communicate with nature and with others, to help and to be helped, to respect and be respected. Mountain could be even more than that: could be an important educational mean and also the base for a future profession for our students. For them, mountain tourism must be more than an opportunity to conquer a peak or to see something. Anything. This is an attempt to give those interested an extra motivation.