Volume VII, Issue 1

CES Working Papers – Volume VII, Issue 1 www.ceswp.uaic.ro Volume VII, Issue 1, 2015 EDITORIAL BOARD SCIENTIFIC BOARD: Doina BALAHUR, Professor PhD, Faculty of Philosophy, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Tiberiu BRAILEAN, Professor PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Daniela Luminita CONSTANTIN, Professor PhD, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania, President of the Romanian Regional Science Association and member of the Council European Regional Science Association Gabriela DRAGAN, Professor PhD, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania, The General Director of the European Institute in Romania Gheorghe IACOB, Professor PhD, Faculty of History, Vice-Rector of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Corneliu IATU, Professor PhD, Dean of Faculty of Geography and Geology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Ion IGNAT, Professor PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Vasile ISAN, Professor PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Rector of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Gheorghe LUTAC, Professor PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Cosmin MARINESCU, Associate Professor PhD, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Dumitru MIRON, Professor PhD, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Gabriela Carmen PASCARIU, Professor PhD, Director of Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Carmen PINTILESCU, Professor PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Alexandru-Florin PLATON, Professor PhD, Faculty of History, Executive Director of Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Victor PLOAE, Professor PhD, Vice-Rector of Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania Ion POHOATA, Professor PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Ioan POPA, Professor PhD, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Spiridon PRALEA, Professor PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Rodica ZAHARIA, Professor PhD, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania EDITOR IN CHIEF: Liviu-George MAHA, Associate Professor PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania EDITORS: Anamaria BERCU, Lecturer PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Sinziana BALTATESCU, Lecturer PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Ovidiu BURUIANA, Associate Professor PhD, Faculty of History, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Elena CIORTESCU, Assistant PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Ramona FRUNZA, Researcher PhD, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Ana SANDULOVICIU, Lecturer PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Ciprian ALUPULUI, PhD, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Gabriel-Andrei DONICI, PhD, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Sebastian ENEA, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Cristian INCALTARAU, Researcher PhD, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Sorin-Stefan MAHA, PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Volume VII, Issue 1, 2015 INTERCULTURAL ISSUES OF THE TOURIST OFFER – Cristina Elena ALBU ........................................ 1 MEASURES OF CORE INFLATION USED BY THE NATIONAL BANK OF ROMANIA – Ionut-Cristian BACIU ............................................................................................................................................................. 17 THE INSTITUTION OF LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION IN THE FIELDS OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE. AN OVERVIEW OF THE TIMEFRAME 2010-2014 – Ionel BOSTAN .................................... 31 FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND THE ROMANIAN ECONOMY – Elena CHIRILA- DONCIU 42 AGEING POPULATION: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AMONG EUROPEAN UNION STATES – Laura DIACONU (MAXIM) ....................................................................................................................................... 50 IN THE GLOBALIZATION ERA, WHICH ARE THE DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH? – Irina-Elena GENTIMIR ...................................................................................................................................................... 60 INTERNATIONALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN EMERGING EUROPE. A DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE – Constantin HALANGESCU ............................................................................................... 80 MONETARY POLICIES AND INDUSTRIAL FLUCTUATIONS IN EAST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES – Mihaela IFRIM ................................................................................................................................................ 98 DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND PARTY FUNDING: MODELS AND CHARACTERISTICS – Hrvoje MATAKOVIC and Irena CAJNER MRAOVIC .......................................... 111 INNOVATION IN THE EUROPEAN VALUE CHAIN: THE CASE OF THE ROMANIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY – Alina Petronela NEGREA and Valentin COJANU ................................................................ 126 THE INFLUENCE OF INCOME AND EDUCATION LEVEL ON ISSUES OF RELIGION IN ROMANIA – Alexandra Georgiana PARASCA ............................................................................................................... 147 MAJOR ISSUES IN BRINGING ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY – Mircea SAVEANU ............................... 156 THE ACCURACY OF GENERAL GOVERNMENT BALANCE FORECASTS IN ROMANIA – Mihaela SIMIONESCU................................................................................................................................................ 167 A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE EU MEMBER STATES REGARDING THEIR INTERDEPENDENCE WITH RUSSIA – Loredana Maria SIMIONOV .................................................... 179 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE VS. NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD – Sabina TUCA ............................................................................................................................................................. 193 UNE INTERPRETATION DU TAUX DE CHANGE – Galina ULIAN, Lucia CASTRAVET, Silvestru MAXIMILIAN ................................................................................................................................................ 202 THE VALUE OF INTEGRITY IN THE REPORTS OF WORK – Simona-Roxana ULMAN ..................... 214 CES Working Papers – Volume VII, Issue 1 INTERCULTURAL ISSUES OF THE TOURIST OFFER Cristina Elena ALBU* ”Studying culture without experiencing culture shock is like practicing swimming without experiencing water.” Geert Hofstede Abstract: Tourism is an opportunity for people from different cultures to meet and interact, to exchange ideas, traditions and ways of thinking. In this industry it is very easy to judge a person just after taking an overall look and studying her general behavior. The aim of this article is to determine the intercultural issues that can show up during the tourist act, while people belonging to different cultures interact. The research method used for creating this article is documentary study. The tourist offer shall be adapted to different types of tourist, taking into consideration some aspects as tourists’ behavior, the type of tourism they prefer and, most of all, the culture they belong to and the culture of the people from the place they visit. Despite the immense diversity of our minds, there is a structure that can serve as a basis for mutual understanding. Keywords: tourist offer, interculturality, stereotypes, mental soft, cultural shock JEL Classification: M19, Z190 Introduction The world is full of confrontations between people, groups and nations who feel, think and behave differently. At the same time, these people, these groups and nations are faced with mutual problems that require cooperation to be resolved (Hofstede et al., 2010, p.15). Ecological, economic, political, military, health and climatic transformations do not stop to the national or regional borders. In order to solve these problems it is mandatory for the opinion leaders from many countries to cooperate. In turn, they need the support of large groups of followers to implement the decisions taken. Understanding the differences in the way these leaders and their supporters think, feel and act, is a condition for finding global viable solutions. One of the reasons that so many solutions are ineffective or cannot be implemented is that these differences of thinking were ignored. However, despite the immense diversity of our minds, there is a structure that could be used as a basis for mutual understanding. We can say that this is happening and where tourism often see problems between the interaction between different people in terms of nationality, behavior, culture from which they come. Thus, in the offers’ design should consider issues such as tourist destination, the

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