Romania Travel

Romania in the WEF’s 2011 Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report

Spot the problem: Yep, poor transport infrastructure. Who would have thought it? Time to realise that all the lovely logos in the world will not build motorways and decent railways.

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Calling all UK visitors to Romania

by Craig Turp February 2, 2011 Bucharest

Calling all UK visitors to Romania. Earn cash (or a Ryan Air voucher) for taking part in a focus group! Focus Groups: Call for Participants We are looking for potential UK visitors to Bucharest to participate in our focus-groups. All participants receive a 25 pound voucher for Ryan Air to fly to any of their [...]

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Everything you know about Romanian tourism is wrong

by Craig Turp September 4, 2010 Romania

Next to rising taxes and the state of the country’s roads, there appears to be nothing more that Romanians like to complain about right now than the fate of the country’s tourism industry. Worrying over the number of foreigners that visit Romania each year has become a national obsession. The country’s Minister of Tourism and [...]

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Romania: Simply Surprising

by Craig Turp September 1, 2010 Romania

She’s at it again. Yesterday, Romania’s incomparably lovely Minister of Tourism and Regional Development, Elena Udrea told assembled Romanian diplomats and ambassadors that the country ‘now had its first ever professionally produced tourism brand.’ (You know, the brand whose logo was bought off-the-shelf). ‘Romania has had promotional campaigns in the past,’ she said, ‘but these [...]

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Bucharest in ‘has trendy bars, clubs, cafes and restaurants’ shock! How homogeneous and uninteresting

by Craig Turp September 1, 2010 Bucharest

Bucharest is a vibrant, modern city which – while it has its problems – is increasingly like any other European capital. The young (and the not so young) enjoy going out in its cafes, bars, pubs, restaurants, clubs, discos and live music venues, much as their counterparts do in almost every other city in the [...]

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Out of Town: Cabana Susai

by Craig Turp August 6, 2010 Romania

It has not been a great couple of weeks for Romanian tourism. The country’s new tourism slogan and logo were unveiled in Shanghai last Thursday by Minister of Tourism Elena Udrea and the usual suspects to general derision, caused in the main by accusations that the logo was remarkably familiar to a number of others. [...]

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It’s not the Romanian government’s business to go around building golf courses

by Craig Turp January 7, 2010 Bucharest

Elena Udrea, everyone’s favourite Minister of Tourism, has been a fantastic source of inspiration for Bucharest Life for some time now. We were therefore chuffed to bits that Traian Basescu chose her to continue in the role in his new government (going as far as to increase the size of her portfolio by throwing in [...]

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