Romanian Tourism

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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Elena’s hiring

by Craig Turp November 23, 2010 Romania

Warning: may contain satire. Oh yes. Everybody’s favourite Minister of Bikinis Tourism and Regional Development, Elena Udrea, is hiring. Udrea, who was on Sunday unanimously elected leader of the ruling PDL in Bucharest (in an election that would have done Robert Mugabe proud: no other candidates stood, and of 999 delegates, 979 voted for her. [...]

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Elena Udrea boxes clever. Or does she?

by Craig Turp November 17, 2010 Romania

After yesterday declaring that she ‘would not rule out’ running for mayor of Bucharest in 2012 (you read it here first), Romania’s Minister of Tourism Elena Udrea signed up local boxer Lucian Bute (no, we hadn’t heard of him either, but apparently he holds one of the many and increasingly meaningless boxing world titles) to [...]

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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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Everything in the Carpathian Garden is rosy

by Craig Turp July 28, 2010 Romania

Nice one. Just over a year since we wrote this, we hear that Romania is about launch another new tourism slogan. This time, Explore the Carpathian Garden. The slogan (and a logo that has yet to be seen – we can hardly wait) will be officially launched tomorrow in the (by all accounts rather impressive) [...]

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