09.03.2012

Tourist arrivals in Romania rose 12.5% in July from the year-earlier month, while overnight accommodations were up 12% on the year, the statistics institute INS said Monday. more

08.14.2012

TUI and ITS, two of the world's largest travel companies, intend to stop bringing tourists to Romania starting next year, unhappy with the absence of promotion on the German market and Romania's more

08.03.2012

Tourist arrivals in Romania rose 11.8% in June from the year-earlier month, while overnight accommodations were up 7.2% on the year, the statistics institute INS said Friday. more

07.22.2012

Romania must be promoted internationally as a safe travel destination where there are no terrorist attacks, Dan Matei Agathon, head of the Romanian Federation of Employers in Tourism, told a press more

07.03.2012

Tourist arrivals in Romania rose 11.5% in May from the year-earlier month, while overnight accommodations were up 10.3% on the year, the statistics institute INS said Tuesday. more

06.25.2012

Online sales of travel agencies in Romania rose over 30% in the first five months of 2012 and the average value of transactions grew 18% to EUR182 from EUR155 in the same period of 2011, according to more

06.20.2012

The leu's depreciation, the local elections and European crisis have caused stagnation of revenue for the Continental Hotels chain in the first half of 2012, says majority shareholder Radu Enache. more

06.11.2012

The Romanian tourism industry revenues decreased 16% over the past four years to EUR1.5 billion in 2011, mainly because of the declining number of foreign visitors, according to a research conducted more

06.06.2012

Romania's agency for rural development payments (APDRP) received more than 2000 applications between April 17 and May 16 for rural tourism financing through the regional development program (PNDR), more

06.01.2012

Romania's Government will cooperate with the British Royal Family, specifically with Prince Charles' representatives, to promote tourism in the Carpathian Mountains, minister Eduard Hellvig announced more

06.01.2012

Tourist arrivals in Romania rose 18.9% in April from the year-earlier month, while overnight accommodations were up 11% on the year, the statistics institute INS said Friday. more

05.07.2012

Romania's joint Parliament committees on Monday endorsed Eduard Hellvig for the office of Minister of Regional Development and Tourism, with 37 votes for, four against and one abstention. more

04.24.2012

The Romanian Tourism Ministry wants to organize an auction to buy IT services for an online staff training center targeting employees involved in tourism projects. 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

03.19.2012

The Romanian spring tourism fair received over 25,000 visitors, who bought or booked holiday packages worth about EUR10 million, the federation of employers in the Romanian tourism sector, or FPTR, more

03.16.2012

Romania’s tourism sector needs to implement the all-inclusive system to bring in tourists and compete with foreign markets which have already developed this system, the Federation of Employers in more

02.19.2012

Romanian Regional Development and Tourism Minister Cristian Petrescu said he plans to propose exempting tour operators from paying VAT if they bring in foreign tourists, hoping the measure would lower more

02.02.2012

Tourist arrivals in Romania rose 16% in 2011 compared with the year before, while overnight accommodations were up 12.2% on the year, the statistics institute INS said Thursday. more

01.20.2012

Romanian hotels and B&Bs will be required to register with an electronic tourist record system, which will log who is staying where, or face fines of up to 20,000 lei (EUR4600), according to a draft more

01.16.2012

Romania will receive fewer foreign tourists this year, as its image suffers because of the recent protests in Bucharest. The longer the violence lasts, the more drastic its effects on the number of more

01.12.2012

Romania’s capital Bucharest was the 55th most visited city in the world in 2010, with 2.1 million visitors, up 5.4% on the year, and outranked tourist destinations such as Athens, Rio de Janeiro and more

01.11.2012

Romanian tour agencies are timidly testing the waters in new markets, like Africa, the former Eastern bloc or Montenegro, but still rely on Romanian favorites Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. more

01.11.2012

Romania's Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism will pay around EUR2 million to participate in 70 trade fairs this year, while in 2011 the Ministry spent EUR900,000 to attend 25 fairs. more

01.06.2012

Tourist arrivals in Romania rose 12.6% in November from the year-earlier month, while overnight accommodations were up 9.2% on the year, the statistics institute INS said Friday. more

01.05.2012

Organizing a Jean Michel Jarre concert this year is among the objectives included in Romania's multi-year marketing and tourist promotion program, which will receive 11 million lei (EUR2.5 million) more