The Economic Effects of Tourism: The Case of Romanian Economy (original) (raw)

The Romanian Hotel Industry. An analysis based on real facts.

Revista de Turism - Studii si Cercetari in Turism, 2013

Romanian Tourism has undergone considerable changes in the transition to the market economy. These changes, together with the inappropriate solutions adopted by the authorities, led to an unsatisfactory performance of the Romanian tourism, significant differences coming up between what the resort ministry communicates and promotes and the actual state of the Romanian tourism and hotel industry. This situation has also been maintained by poor and erroneous reporting of data by hoteliers regarding the hotels managed to the resort ministry but also by the poor processing of information received by the ministry of resort / NAT, leading to a database of erroneous information regarding the Romanian tourism and hotel industry supply. These data are practically useless for any interested parties, and moreover for those intending to use the facts especially for opening a new business in the hospitality industry. This paper aims at presenting a much closer to reality statistical summary of the hotel industry, bringing into the limelight the accommodation units that operate without classification certificates and which are not fully taken into account by the NIS.

TOURIST INNS ON ROMANIA’S MODERN TOURISM MARKET

The present paper investigates a less debated topic of the accommodation sector: the presence of tourist inns on the Romanian market. More than 20 years ago, authorities decided to exclude tourist inns from the official classification system. Relying on both official data, collected and processed based on the List of Accommodation Facilities (Lodgings and Food-service units) elaborated by the National Authority for Tourism, and on the information available on specialized websites (e.g. Booking.com) a thorough analysis has been performed in order to identify all structures that function on the local market pretending to be inns. The identified structures have been categorized and discussed according to various criteria: name of the hospitality unit, name of the enterprise that owns/runs the inn, type of unit, level of classification, lodging capacity; localization. The undertaken research and analyses led to the identification of 288 accommodation and/or food-service structures matching one or more criteria that link them to inns. One of the main findings establishes that in Romania’s modern tourism industry there is a fully justified need to grant a special attention to inns. Further investigations have already been initiated in this field, continuing the current study. Keywords: tourist inns, accommodation facilities, food-services, secondary data analysis, Romania JEL Classification: L83

An analysis of some recent statistics of the Romanian tourism

Jurnal of Tourism, no. 11 /2011, pp. 38-44, 2011

One studies the evolution in time of some indicators that are representative for the touristic activity in Romania during 2000 – 2009, as well as correlations between them, these being: the number of arrivals and of overnights in the tourism structures with accomodation functions, as well as the number of tourism structures and their accomodation capacity, separately for foreign and Romanian visitors, as well as for different tourism destinations. All these indicators were extracted from the database of the National Institute of Statistics. Generally, an increase in time of the number of tourists is found, but also a certain decrease during the last two-three years, except for some groups of destinations which show a rather peculiar and interesting dynamics. Thus, the tourism in the resorts of the seaside area have registered an accentuated decrease during the last four years, especially for the foreign tourists, that reflects a change in their options. On the other hand, the tourism for the category of destination ―other localities and touristic routes (which excludes the resorts of the spa, seaside, and mountain areas, as well as the city of Bucharest and all the county capital cities) has shown a remarkable growth during the whole considered time interval, indicating an increase of the interest of the tourists (both Romanians and foreigners) for the cultural and rural tourism.

ANALYSIS OF ROMANIA’S AND TRANSYLVANIA’S TOURIST SUPPLY DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE

The paper’s premise is that a strong link exists between Romania’s poor tourism performance and the quality of its hospitality supply. In this respect, a comparative analysis of Romania’s and Transylvania’s tourist offering is carried out aiming at identifying the particularities of their development and the causes of their poor performance. The motivation for having chosen Transylvania resides in this region’s attractiveness among foreign tourists; it is a destination with a high potential favoring the development of some tourist products competitive on the international market. Thus, based on a comprehensive secondary data analysis regarding the public lodging facilities, the paper presents their geographic dispersion, the development of the accommodation capacity by levels of classification, the number of available beds, the types of units, the structures’ international affiliation, the main Romanian owners, etc. The dispersion by levels of classification, together with the net usage indexes of the accommodation capacity, characterize the performance of this industry. The research study emphasizes the fact that despite a high tourist potential, the present-day hospitality supply cannot support a healthy development of the tourist activity, and presents some possible causes.

Tourism sector in Romania - main features

Tourism is, for many countries, the main economic driver and a priority domain for any future sustainable development strategies. Romania, despite being endowed with many natural and cultural sites, ranks behind most of the European countries in terms of tourism competitiveness due to the improper marketing, as well as the incapacity to have a correct and proper vision and to update existing products and tourist services. The paper aims at analysing the current features of the tourism sector in Romania, focusing on the most recent trends of the sector as well as inbound tourism, receipts and expenditure. Great attention was paid to the key drivers for the tourism market, analysing the country’s position in international ranking regarding the travel and tourism competitiveness.

Tourist Accommodation Establishments in Romania

Journal of Eastern Europe Research in Business and Economics, 2015

The study addresses issues on Romania's tourism. The paper was focused on statistical indicators published in the Eurostat database and by the

The Evolution of New Types of Tourism in Romania

2009

During the past decades, more and more governments have admitted the importance of tourism as catalyst of economic and social development. Therefore tourism has been praised for its rapid and sustained development, although not even its’ most optimistic advocates couldn’t foresee such growth and resistance during global economic recession periods, when tourism has maintained or even strengthened its position. After a period during which has had a fluctuating evolution, influenced by the general economic, social and political situation, Romanian tourism seems to have taken an ascendant trajectory during the past years. Supporting this statement is the WTTC report “Romania – The impact of travel and tourism on jobs and the economy” which presents optimistic forecasts regarding Romanian tourism. Moreover, the growth of some new, modern types of tourism in our country such as business tourism, rural tourism, urban tourism, etc., sustain the idea of a positive trend in the evolution of R...

Analysis on the Situation of Romanian Tourism in Recent Years

2016

This paper presents an analysis of the situation of foreign tourists arrivals and evolution of the number of Romanian tourists in our country. Even if you have not noticed big improvements in infrastructure, access roads, namely in the modernization of accommodations and services, however, the number of tourists has increased since 2010. As before, most of whom are European citizens, especially from EU countries, followed by eastern neighbors, Moldova and Ukraine. From the point of view of requirements, most checking in at 2-3 stars or flowers, but there is a increase tendency of 4-star / flower level, despite relatively high prices compared to services.