Abstract - Culture and tourism: from antagonism to synergism
The aim of this piece of work is presenting the nature and various benefits resulting from the relations between tourism and culture. On the one hand it would be difficult for tourism to come into existence without the historic values of monuments, on the other tourist activity contributes to preservation and maintenance of those monumental values of many places. Thus, one may state that tourism and culture are condemned to each other or, seen in a more positive light, meant for each other due to the rule of mutual benefit. The author compares this relation to “mariage de raison” asking at the same time if is possible to transform it into “mariage d’amour”.