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STUDY CASE: The advent of tourism and real

estate industry in a traditional community

“Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts”

Arnold Bennett

• the place was very natural
• the tourists stay in a camping on the beach, or rent room in houses
• the meals were in the garden
• the relationship between guests and hosts were very warm and stabile
• “bohemian” groups of the Romanian intelligentsia
  • restriction regarding the building was rise  motels, disco
  • new music: manele
  • traditional drinks were replace whit tequila, cocktails

NEED FOR DEVELOPMENT

Developed by the local authorities

Create a General Zoning Plan 1999

Idea of the plan : change some pieces of land from extra-vilan to intra-vilan

The most important gaps of the GZP are:

• didn’t treat the road congestion, parking shortage and the lack of a full sewage system
• treated only the development of the land, whit only little detail on how the insufficient local infrastructure would be upgraded and who would pay for it.

Some aspects of the GZP adopted on 2006:

• preserve traditions
• build in a control manner
• find ways to extend the season
• keeping the level of revenue up
• parking lots
• Vama Veche should be put on the map as a friendly destination

Public authorities were suspicious about the plan, saying that there are no realistic solutions for coping whit the increasing inflow of tourists.

a). Are the groups of bohemian non-residents entitled to interfere at all whit the decisions made by local residents of Vama Veche? Do they represent a legitimate part of the community just because they kept visiting the place for decades?

b). Whose priorities are more important, when things start to diverge: those of the local community, geared towards rapid development, or those of the broader, “enlightened society”, who inclines more towards conservation and sustainability?

c). Are the “true interests” of the future generations represented in any way in this dispute by the enlightened elites?