11.11.2024

Consumers’ continued passion for seasonal sales is being fueled by the global cost of living crisis, driving shoppers to seek out more bargains as they try to make their disposable income stretch more

06.18.2024

This year, 37% of Romanians intend to go on holiday abroad and the most popular direction proved to be Greece; on the longest of foreign journeys, 1/3 plan to spend between EUR 201 – 600 per person, more

12.21.2022

The rampant inflation has affected Romanians’ budgets for holiday presents, as the amount allocated in 2022 is 40% lower than last year’s, according to the latest survey carried out by online more

12.19.2022

Holiday spending remains at 2021 level this year, even though 37% of consumers are in a worse financial situation compared to last year and about three-quarters (73%) expect higher prices, according more

11.24.2020

German discount chain Lidl announced Tuesday it was extending employee benefits and will be doubling Christmas bonuses this year up to RON800 per employee, as well as new life insurance that includes more

11.19.2020

While many hotels and other accommodation facilities used to be booked for winter holidays already at this time of the year, the pandemic took people’s joy of spending Christmas and New Year’s more

11.10.2020

The COVID-19 pandemic will disrupt consumer holiday shopping plans worldwide, according to the fifth edition of the EY Future Consumer Index released Tuesday. more

07.20.2020

54% of Romanians were unable to afford a one-week annual holiday in 2019, nearly double compared to 29% of residents of EU Member States aged 16 or over who were unable to afford paying for an annual more

02.18.2020

IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) will bring back its Holiday Inn brand to Romania by incorporating the former Golden Tulip Times hotel in Bucharest. more

09.03.2019

Romanians are the firsts among EU residents who choose to spend their holiday budget on domestic trips and allocate the lowest share of their budget to trips abroad, a study by Eurostat on 2017 data more

08.01.2019

Six in ten Romanians cannot afford a one-week annual holiday away from home, double compared with the EU average, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, said on Thursday. more

10.17.2016

Demand for vacations in Romania over the winter holidays from Romanian consumers is on the rise and the packages for spa towns such as Baile Felix are already sold out, says Lucia Morariu, shareholder more

04.09.2014

A five-night stay in a seaside hotel in peak summer season costs about EUR600 in a five-star hotel in Mamaia (Palm Beach, all inclusive), while in Golden Sands, Bulgaria, it costs a little more than more

07.05.2013

Over 41,500 Romanians visited the Danube Delta in 2012, down 2% on the year, and spent about EUR10 millions during their holiday here, the country’s statistics institute INS told Mediafax. more

04.22.2012

Romania's Government will declare April 30, 2012 a non-working day for the public sector, to be recouped in a Saturday in May, so that the May Day vacation might be longer, Prime Minister Mihai Razvan more

03.26.2012

The money spent by the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism from 2009 through 2011 in order to develop tourism and get foreigners to come to Romania made no impact on the economy. Central bank more

12.13.2011

The 2011 winter holiday budget of two thirds of Romanian city residents is 31% lower than that in 2009, according to a survey conducted by Mednet Marketing Research Center. more

11.29.2011

Romania's Senate on Tuesday tacitly adopted a bill making November 30, the feast of Saint Andrew, a legal non-working holiday. more