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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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Lies, damned lies, and tourism statistics

by Craig Turp January 4, 2011 Bucharest

They are at it again. Not a week after moaning about Romania’s exclusion from some meaningless lists, part of the country’s media has itself all in a tizzy about how many tourists visited Bulgaria in the first half of last year compared with Romania. This article claims that over three million people visited Bulgaria in [...]

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Random lists spark new Romanian national nervous breakdown

by Craig Turp January 2, 2011 Romania

The ommission of Romania last week from two lists of ‘Great places to visit in 2011′ (one published by CNN, one by Lonely Planet) has caused the usual, utterly predictable collective nervous breakdown amongst the Romanian blogosphere/commentariat. Poor old Minister of Tourism Elena Udrea has again been hauled over the coals by a whole bunch [...]

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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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