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Beyond the Numbers: Personal and Informal Characteristics of Tourism Businesses in Szeklerland

Summary/Abstract: The study focuses on the group of regional tourism entrepreneurs who, after the change of regime in Romania in 1989, built up their own businesses “from the bottom up”, relying on personal resources and knowledge acquisition. These are, in most cases, small or medium-sized businesses and rely to a significant extent on a family background. Based on interview research, case studies, and personal field experience in Harghita County, I examine the role of individual, ad hoc, creative solutions (informal procedures) based on personal skills in establishing, developing, and running businesses, which play a role in both fitting into formal structures and in their success.

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