Management of Tourist Sports Activities in the Republic of Moldova
Abstract
The Republic of Moldova maintains its traditions regarding the management of sports tourism
activities, the primary role in this regard being assumed by the Sports Tourism Federation and the
Sports Orientation Federation. Thus, every year the two federations have a competition plan that is
approved by the Ministry of Education and Research of the Republic of Moldova. It involves the
participation of athletes in national and international competitions in various sports tourism events,
as well as a series of sports tourism events that take place in the Republic of Moldova. The Sports
Tourism Federation of the Republic of Moldova ensures the management of sports tourism activities
for events such as hiking, mountain, nautical and cycle tourism, and the Sports Orienteering
Federation's sports orientation activities. All this is organised taking into account a regulation which
is applied within sports tourism activities. The objectives of the study are represented by the analysis
of the management of the activity of the professional federations that organize sports tourism activities
by identifying the number of sports tourism activities, their locations and their selection criteria, in
this sense the analysis of the specialized literature, the statistical-mathematical method were used,
observations being made on the two structures that ensure the management of sports tourism activities
at the national level. Moreover, the management of the federations that organise sports tourism
activities in the Republic of Moldova they focused on their popularisation and the organisation of
sports events that attract athletes both from the country and from abroad.