Romania’s cruise market is estimated this year at EUR 10 million and the upward trend of the recent years is expected to continue because of growing demand for this type of holiday, Razvan Pascu, tourism marketing consultant with Travel Communication Romania. read more...

More than 1.35 million tourists were recorded in accommodation units in Romania in the first quarter of this year, up by 8.2 percent compared with the same period last year, show provisional data recently made public by the National Institute of Statistics (INS). read more...

Over 250 companies from more than 25 countries, along with over 50 tourism regions in Romania will attend the Romania’s Tourism Fair (TTR) to take place at the Romexpo Exhibition Center of Bucharest March 14-17. read more...

The number of foreign visitors in Romania, registered at the border, were 6.26 million in the first nine months of this year, growing by 5.8 percent compared with the same period last year, according to preliminary data released on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS). read more...

More than one million tourists have spent their vacation in Romania, in July 2012, according to data provided by the National Statistics Institute (INS), the highest level compared to the similar period in the past six years, the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism (MDRT) announced in a press release. read more...

More than 25,000 tourists will spend their May 1 mini-holiday on the Romanian seaside of the Black Sea, according to the estimations of the tourism agencies, president of the National Association of the Tourism Agencies (ANAT) Corina Martin told a press conference. read more...

The arrivals of foreign visitors to Romania, which were registered at the border checkpoints, amounted to 857,000 in the first two months of 2012, down by 2.3 percent from the similar time span of 2011, according to the data supplied by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) on Monday. read more...

As many as 40,000 foreign tourists are expected in Bucharest, on May 9th, to watch the UEFA Europa League final, organized on the National Arena and tens of millions of people worldwide will watch the match on television, announced Bucharest Mayor Sorin Oprescu. read more...

There were about 154,000 requests for the cable aerial lift points (at cable cars, gondola lifts, chair lifts and platter lifts) and more than 132,000 cars were reported in the major mountain resorts in Romania during the past weekend, reports the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism (MDRT), according to data provided by local public authorities. read more...

Over 2.5 million people, mostly Romanians working abroad are expected during the holiday season to pass the border checkpoints, especially those with Hungary and the Republic of Moldova. read more...

Romanian Regional Development and Tourism Minister Elena Udrea said Tuesday, in a meeting with tour operators, that she wants to privatize the hotels managed by the State Protocol Patrimony Administration (RA-APPS). read more...

Corina Martin, head of the Romanian Tourism Agency Association and of the "Litoral-Delta Dunarii" Association, said Thursday that hotel revenues were 10% lower this summer compared to last year, despite a slight increase in the number of tourists. read more...

Romanian Health Minister Attila Cseke said Thursday he will soon put forward a draft act to grant spa resort status to ten localities which have therapeutic springs. read more...

Streets filled up with garbage, garbage blocks on main roads, lack of hot running water, lack of sewages – this is how Bucharest looks like according to VerticalNews.com quoted by Tourism-review.com. Bucharest was voted the ugliest EU city capital. There are no paved streets, drinking tap water, sewages and in some places in Bucharest it feels like the Middle Ages. There are houses with clean tap water but they have no sewage. read more...

Tourist arrivals in Romania rose 5.1% in April from the year-earlier month, while tourist accommodations were up 2.2% on the year, the statistics institute INS said Friday. read more...

Romania's tourism strategy will be managed and monitored by a committee made up only of ministers and led by the Minister of Regional Development and Tourism, according to a decision by Prime Minister Emil Boc. read more...

Almost half of Romanians (46%) did not take a holiday trip last year, most (62%) because of financial reasons, according to a Eurobarometer survey on the attitudes of Europeans towards tourism, which shows things improved overall in 2010. read more...

Ali Yilmaz Yildirimlar, general manager of Radisson Blu hotel complex of Calea Victoriei, which operates 718 rooms, maintains operating income had a two-digit advance in the first four months of this year, as almost 70% of rooms were occupied on average. read more...

About 20,000 tourists are spending the May 1 weekend, which marks the opening of the summer season, on the Romanian Black Sea coast, according to estimations of the country’s tour operators’ association ANAT. read more...

Around 7,000 Romanians went on a cruise holiday last year, while worldwide 17.5 million people worldwide choose to spend their holidays on cruising ships every year. read more...