The interview of the week with Mr. Conf. Dr. Nedelea Alexandru – the president of the information and touristy marketing “PROMOTUR BUCOVINA”

1.infotravelromania.ro:What is PROMOTUR BUCOVINA ?
N.A.:In the University “Stefan cel Mare” from Suceava, the faculty of Economical science and Public Administration opened the nongovernmental organization “Voyage Association” – which is proposing to help the students with their practice and facilitates founding a job. Around this association was opened the Centre of Information and Touristy marketing PROMOTUR BUCOVINA.
I want to say that the Association for the tourism Bucovina is not the same organization with the Centre of Information and Touristy Marketing Bucovina.
This association has as object of activity providing touristy information to tourists, economical agents and physical persons that operates with touristy services.
Also this association helps and technically assists the ones who intent to begin economical activities in the tourism area.
Between the objects of the centre is the editing of the promoting materials, their distribution, intense activities of promotion (aggressive marketing), also the strategic organization of the marketing politics that has as object the touristy product.
Based on the market studies, on their segmentation and the identification of the targeted markets, this centre follows the determination of the concept of new touristy products that can satisfy those markets. If our expectations are conform to this activity of optimization of the tourist-tenderer relations corroborated with promoting work in all the mediums of the touristy potential from Bucovina will lead to the increasing of the number and quality of the tourists which visits Suceava district, then we can be sure that we reached our long-term purposes of determining new and important investment in tourism.

2.infotravelromania.ro: How it was born “The Voyage Association”?
N.A.:I graduated the specialty “Organizing and Leading the Tourism Activity” at the University Stefan cel Mare – Suceava. As a student and then as a young teacher I confronted the problem of missing efficient activity of the students practice. So, with the help of the students I created an association as a place of “permanent practice”, where the students really can learn the tourism realities and they can also earn experience and money from this activity.
The teachers try to increase the student’s entrepreneurial aptitudes in some business nurseries. So, the members of the associations learn practically to take decisions and to fulfill all the functions that I was talking about. The members of the associations earn practical knowledge in specialized areas as marketing, the technique of operations from the housing industry, management, accountability. This association facilitates the integration in the firms on the sucevean market and the near districts. The objectives of the Voyage Association are:
- creating the frame and the favorable climate for increasing the entrepreneurial aptitudes, individual initiative between students, the future graduated from the faculty of economical sciences and public administrations in the University Stefan cel Mare – Suceava;
- the material help of the business initiative of the students – creating business nurseries;
- the possibility for the students to earn money for their university courses;
- making easier for the students to contact the actual economic medium;
- conferring awards for the good students: trips, camps, trips for the New Year to the mountain and the seaside (students with good results at the exams and low budget receive for free tickets in the touristy programs organized by Voyage Club).
Each department is coordinated by universitary teacher, specialized in that domain.

3.infotravelromania.ro: Who can become a member of this association? Is there a tax to become a member?
N.A.: In the present here activates students on daily courses or from I.D.D. in the specialties: The Economy of Commerce, Tourism and Services, The Economy of Commerce, Bank Data Processing, Accountability and Bank Data Processing, International Economical Relations, Geography of the Tourism, and from the master’s program, the specialties: The Management of the Commerce Tourism and Services, The Management of the Public Administration in the U.E. countries. In Voyage Association can apply students from other specialties. We also collaborate with graduated or with juridical persons from the tourism area who benefits of our services. For now we do not have a member tax. We will establish it around ten € for phisical persons and 50 € for juridical persons.

4.infotravelromania.ro: Which are the services offered by PROMOTUR BUCOVINA?
N.A.:The information center and touristy market PROMOTU BUCOVINA offers for the tourists:
- promoting and informative material: touristy maps, brochures, pliant, posters;
- services and touristy packages, our own offers, new touristy itineraries;
- information about housing possibilities and eating at hotels, motels, cabanas, pensions, mansions, camping, agro touristy ranches, private houses;
- information about natural and cultural-historical touristy objectives;
- The Center gives tourists a computerized data base where they can find the information about touristy area of Bucovina;
- Information on the internet and email for planning their vacation and for making reservations for the touristy services, touristy information about Romania.
The Information and Touristy Marketing Promotur Bucovina offers to the tourism agencies:
- technical assistance for the improvement of the housing spaces for the tourism;
- information and training about administration in tourism;
- information and consulting to deal the contracts with the tourism agencies;
- consulting for the new investments according to the internal and external touristy market;
- adding all the tourism agencies in the Center’s data base and promote them in the touristy market;
- promoting services so the comm The Management of the Commerce Tourism and Services The Economy of Commerce, Tourism and Services , Geography of the Tourism The Management of the Commerce Tourism and Services The Economy of Commerce, Tourism and Services , Geography of the Tourism The Management of the Commerce Tourism and Serviceson touristy products can be used: landscape, water, air, history, nature, hospitality, agreement, Bucovina monasteries;
- information about training programs created and tested by experts for training, marketing and management in tourism.

5.infotravelromania.ro: You are also university conferential at the University Stefan cel Mare from Suceava – Faculty of Economical Sciences and Public Administrations. Is there any interest in tourism?
N.A.:Every year we have a lot of candidates for the specialties: The Economy of Commerce, Tourism and Services, Geography of the Tourism and the master’s Management of the Commerce Tourism and Services. Many students from other specialties contact us to Voyage Association for the tourism guiding courses or for our trips, camps and journeys organized by us.
Many owners or tourism agency administrators realize the necessity of specialty studies in the tourism area. In the end, this area presents large interests from different persons as age and training.

6.infotravelromania.ro:In Romania there are a few touristy marketing specialists. You stand in with Mr. Oscar Snak and Mr. Puiu Nistoreanu. Please tell us the books you wrote or you collaborated and where can they be found?
N.A.:The books I wrote or I collaborated in tourism area are:
- The Touristy Market, Ed. Didactica si Pedagogica, Bucharest, 2003 with an opening from the international marketing teacher Ph. Kotler, Northwestern University J.L. Kellog Graduate School of Management, Chicago;
- Marketing politics in tourism, Ed. Economica, Bucharest, 2003;
- Puiu Nistoreanu, Vasile Dinu, Alexandru Nedelea : The Production and Commerce of the Touristy Services, Ed. Didactica si Pedagogica, Bucharest, 2004.
The books can be bought only from me if you contact me at the email address: alnedelea@yahoo.com or at the phone 0740019277.

7.infotravelromania.ro:Where can the tourists find out more details about Promotur Bucovina?
N.A.:The web site of the Center of Information and Touristy Marketing Promotur Bucovina can be found at www.e-promo.ro.

Centre of Information and Touristy Marketing Bucovina"PROMOTUR BUCOVINA" University "Stefan cel Mare " from Suceava - 1, Universitatii Street President : Conf. univ. dr. Nedelea Alexandru Tel : 0230 - 216.147|Fax: 0230 - 520.263| Mobil : 0740 - 019.277| clubvoiaj@yahoo.com | www.e-promo.ro