Field of activity: Tourism
Other related fields of activity: Dezvoltare durabilă şi ecoturism, turism rural, turism internaţional, turism cultural, turism activ şi animaţie în turism, managementul şi marketingul destinaţiilor turistice, marketing turistic, management hotelier şi industria ospitalităţii.

Mission and objectives:
The research centre is subordinated to the research strategy at FSEAP level and is deeply anchored in the international, national and regional context, through the activity of CERC members and existing collaborations. CERC-Tour is initiated to facilitate research and the establishment of research teams in tourism, to increase the quality of research and to strengthen cooperation with various economic agents and institutions of local authorities.

The set-up of the centre was based on the significant contribution of USV in the development and promotion of the Bucovina destination, but also on the importance of the contributions made by FSEAP teachers in the field of tourism science and business administration.
The scientific research is carried out in two directions:

a) within the faculty, individually or in a team, on scientific or interdisciplinary fields;

b) in cooperation with other institutions or economic agents, having a practical- applicative character.

The field of tourism is one of the fields with tradition within FSEAP, being the first specialization of this faculty.
The Faculty of Economics and Public Administration (FSEAP) initiates and participates in research programs in collaboration with universities, centres and institutions from Romania and from other European Union countries, on tourism topics, as well as with local and central public administration authorities. FSEAP was invited to contribute to the implementation of tourism strategies for Suceava Municipality, for Suceava County, for other destinations in the county, and for destination management
associations (Association for Tourism Bucovina, Association for Tourism Development and Promotion Sucevita, Vama, etc.).

At the same time, FSEAP academic staff cooperated with important international organizations in tourism development projects, among which we mention: GIZ (Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit), NFI (Nature Friends International), WWF Romania (Danube-Carpathians Program), Romanian Ecotourism Association), Suceava Chamber of Commerce and Industry, North-East Development Agency.

CERC mission
Developing knowledge in tourism through advanced research in this field, as well as increasing the quality of services in the hospitality industry through organized training programs. The research potential of the collaborators and the projects in which they participate, it represents opportunities that FSEAP aims to develop and dynamize in future research and training programs, within the CERC Tour.

Research fields:

• Destination management;
• Analysis of tourist motivation;
• Cultural and heritage tourism;
• Event management;
• Sustainable development and ecotourism;
• Comparative tourism marketing;
• Gastronomy and creative tourism;
• Human resources management in tourism;
• The tourist offer of the Bucovina destination; Database;
• The cultural landscape of tourist destinations;
• Innovation and future services;
• Analysis of the quality of tourist services;
• Vocational training in tourism.

PhD directorate: Economics, with topics applied in tourism; Business administration, with topics applied in tourism.