If in the year 2003 the arrivals of the visitors from the European Union towards Romania were 2,311 thousand, in the year 2008 their number increased by 577 thousand, reaching 2,868 thousand arrivals, meaning an increase of about 20% in only 6 years. The tourists coming from these parts of Europe generally chose to practice seaside or mountain tourism, and lately they have practiced tourism for SPA treatments. In this global image, the tourist circulation registered a quantitative and qualitative evolution, the main tendency being the increase of the number of arrivals from one year to the other.