TRENDS IN DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA Experiential tourism has, in addition to its social relations, also a profound socio-human significance. This effect is exerted both on the tourists and on the population of the visited zoos and is felt in the welfare of the community, in the improvement and education, in the use of free time, in the health of the environment, in the connections between the activities. Through its companion, experiential tourism has a comforting, restorative role, contributing to the restoration of the body's physical fitness, both through general forms of rest, recreation, movement, and specific purposes.