Published on : Wednesday, August 7, 2019
“Holiday vouchers for Romania’s public employees ended up having the opposite effect for foreign tourists, as the hotel industry has aggressively raised its prices, so Romania has become a non-competitive country compared to its neighbours. We have become more expensive than the Bulgarians and even the Greeks, even though our services are not up to their quality,” said Dan Anghelescu, member of ANAT (the National Tourism Agencies’ Association).
Also, Romania didn’t have any new event that could attract foreign tourists in the past year.
It has been witnessed that often foreign tourists don’t know what to do in Romania and that their average holiday period is 1.9 days. Moreover, Romania does not have any information centers; therefore, tourists have to do their own research about tourist spots or activities that they can engage in the country.
Tourism consultant Cezar Dumitru said that the decrease of foreign tourists in Romania is due to the general decline of the business segment in Bucharest. “Our economy is not doing so well, and this can be seen in the number of business travellers, which has been decreasing month to month. But this is just for Bucharest, because the other cities in Romania are leisure rather than business destinations,” said Dumitru.
Romania is also doing quite bad in promoting itself at international fairs and through other types of channels.
The number of foreign tourists in Romania declined in June for the 12th month in a row and the drop went further down this year, exposing the weaknesses of the local tourism industry and the lack of well-managed tourism attractions in the country.
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