Online information premise in the development of bihor tourist destination, Romania

Tourism represents one of the sustainable alternatives with well-defined roles and functions in the shaping and development of local economies and tourist destination identity respectively. In this context, the transmitted information plays a major part. In the present case, the study focused on the analysis of the information delivered by the local actors from Bihor tourist destination in the online environment. The website pages belonging to the main local actors were analysed to quantify qualitatively and quantitatively the information from the online environment as a premise for the development of Bihor tourist destination. 686 possible local actors were identified, 140 public actors and 546 private activities whose sites were analyzed by the perspective regarding the information about tourist destinations in the studied area. The results have highlighted some crucial aspects regarding the local actors'attributions concerning the information typology in the process of construction and strengthening of the tourist destination image.