The Beginning of the Summer Season in Romania

The Romanian seaside resorts are waiting for tourists in the upcoming summer season

Leyla Cheamil, 29.04.2022, 14:00

This weekend, which also marks the International
Workers’ Day with barbeques and parties the summer season officially kicks off
in Romania. Many Romanians are these days travelling to the seaside resorts on
the Black Sea coast, where over 100 hotels are expected to be open. According
to travel operators, after two years of pandemic, people are now appreciating
holidays more than ever as over 80% of the rooms have already been booked and
resorts are expected to be crowded this summer season.

Hotel owners believe that roughly 30 thousand
tourists are going to spend May Day at the seaside, most of them in the resorts
of Mamaia and Costinesti. Night clubs and the Sunwaves electronic music
festival in Mamaia resort are expected to be the main attractions for young
people these days, as well as the festivals of hip-hop&trap and rock music
in the resort of Costinesti.

Prices for a holiday in a seaside resort have risen
at least 15% and when demand is higher, in the month of August, for instance,
prices can get even higher, because as the tour operators have explained, like
in any market economy it is the supply and demand, which is setting the
price.

According to Romania’s Tourism Minister, Daniel
Cadariu, beaches in the seaside resorts on the Romanian Black Sea coast have
been prepared to welcome tourists. They have been cleaned by the National
Administration ‘Romanian Waters’ and submitted to operators. According to
Minister Cadariu holiday vouchers, aimed at giving an impetus to local tourism,
are to soon make it to the employees of the state and some private companies.
Every institution decides whether to offer these vouchers or not, but they have
been urged to do it as soon as possible. Here is Tourism Minister Daniel
Cadariu with more on the issue.

Daniel Cadariu: In December
we passed an emergency ordinance, on which every institution based its budget,
so that they may get the right amount of money. Now it’s true that part of this
money has so far been spent on public procurement but according to figures
released last week, nearly 97 million lei have already been deposited into the accounts
of the beneficiaries.

The Minister has also announced that private
companies can also give holiday vouchers up to six minimum wages and aren’t
limited to the 1450 lei ceiling as the state companies. This could be a real
stimulus for their employees at a time of severe labour force crisis Minister Cadariu
went on to say.

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