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Natural and Anthropogenic Premises of Touristic Arrangement and Development in the Littoral Zones. The study accomplishes an analysis on the categories of factors with implication in the territory’s arrangement, with a special view upon the touristic arrangement of littoral zones. The anthropization of the littoral zones was a continuous process, recalling, as intensity, the beginning of the Great Geographical Discoveries period and having an explosive character in the 20th century. The conditions and natural resources which stimulated this process, evolutionally and specifically, were also involved in the outlining and imposing the most ample and complex touristic arrangement at a world level, with a linear character, of strip. The conditions of relief determined the type of touristic arrangement. The climate contributed to a different extension of the touristic activities during the year. The water of the seas and oceans in the littoral zone, with certain physical and chemical specific features, have nuanced and differentiated the types and forms of tourism practiced, but also the aquatic touristic arrangements. The aquatic ecosystems increased the degree of touristic attractivity. The settlements, some with a duration of millenniums, intensely populated and with complex activities, predominantly related to the harbours, initially constituted themselves as first destinations of an incipient littoral tourism, forming subsequently the armor which constituted the basis of the touristic mega-arrangements, unleashed from the second half of the last century and continuing till nowadays.

Keywords: littoral touristic arrangement, littoral tourism, littoral touristic resorts, touristic potential of the seacoast.