Oradea Metropolitan Area as a Space of Interspecific Relations Triggered by Physical and Potential Tourist Activities

Metropolitan areas provide many opportunities to spend quality outdoor leisure time as well discover cultural attractions. Sprawl occurs in Romania quite rapidly, encouraged by the construction of ring roads around cities and their expansion into metropolitan areas. The current paper aims identify tourism models based on which tourist flows can be sustainably reoriented within rural Oradea Area (OMA) given potential level (i.e., very low, average, high). was scaled Methodology for Analysis a Territory’s Tourist Potential, stands law published Official Monitor 14th June 2016. study indicates that most activity develops OMA southern part Sânmartin commune, thus unsustainably capturing all OMA. Natural man-made attractions’ territorial concentrations were emphasized communes from south northern OMA, but there are major dysfunctions terms technical endowment infrastructure supply. three emerged refer medical–recreational eco–residential wellness network, discovery eco-holiday, co-visit marginal community.