Anotace:
The current tourist flow study is part of a series of several tourist-related research on the rural region of the Oradea Metropolitan Area. The research analyzes the tourist flow in the rural OMA compared to Bihor County. Thus, the annual tourist flow quantitative and qualitative indicators in the area of the rural OMA and Bihor County for the period 2001-2020 were analyzed referring to tourist arrivals, overnight stays, average length of stay, tourist flow density and seasonality. The secondary data were collected from annual statistic registries of the Romanian National Institute of Stastistics, stored, processed and analyzed under the form of maps, graphs and tables as well as adjoining interpretations through the GIS mapping program and statistical analysis programs.The analysis revealed that the hotspot of tourist consumption in the rural Metropolitan Area of Oradea (i.e. OMA) and Bihor County is represented by Băile Felix and 1 Mai spas which draw the largest share of all OMA tourists of 93.2% and 48.3% of Bihor County for the analyzed period 2001-2020 for its thermal cure factors. It reveals an overtourism consumption in a single commune vresus its other counterparts. The length of stay in the rural OMA amounts to six days, the high season being from May to October with a peak in August.