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Almost all mountain areas can provide great opportunities for the development of various forms of rural tourism, there being many examples according to which many mountain areas, through appropriate and effective strategies of capitalizing the resources through the forms of rural tourism, start from the pioneer stage to a real valuable alternative in socio-economic terms for the rural area. One of the concepts that are increasingly used is the \u201ctourist village\u201d, its main issue, consisting in the return of the investment, an aspect that we will discuss in this paper. The paper presents an analysis of the way in which the occupancy degree affects the period of amortization of the initial investment. Concretely, in the case of the medium-sized tourist village, the minimum occupancy degree for the amortization of the initial investment, starts from about 25% for the investment without a loan, but subsidy in proportion of 50% and reaches at about 85% in the case of an investment with loan, for a period of 10 years, without advance or subsidy and with an interest of 7%. Initial investments were established for a holiday village in the Romanian countryside.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/su9060875","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,5,23]],"date-time":"2017-05-23T11:14:33Z","timestamp":1495538073000},"page":"875","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":34,"title":["Management of a Tourist Village Establishment in Mountainous Area through Analysis of Costs and Incomes"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Ramona","family":"Ciolac","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Agricultural Management, Banat\u2019s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine \u201cKing Michael I of Romania\u201d, Calea Aradului no.119, 300645 Timisoara, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ciprian","family":"Rujescu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Agricultural Management, Banat\u2019s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine \u201cKing Michael I of Romania\u201d, Calea Aradului no.119, 300645 Timisoara, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Simona","family":"Constantinescu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Agricultural Management, Banat\u2019s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine \u201cKing Michael I of Romania\u201d, Calea Aradului no.119, 300645 Timisoara, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tabita","family":"Adamov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Agricultural Management, Banat\u2019s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine \u201cKing Michael I of Romania\u201d, Calea Aradului no.119, 300645 Timisoara, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mihaela","family":"Dragoi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Economic Studies, Faculty of International Business and Economics, Caderea Bastiliei no.2-10, 010615 Bucharest, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ramona","family":"Lile","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aurel Vlaicu University, Faculty of Economics, Bd. 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