Thursday, March 8, 2012

Cristian Petrescu: Hoteliers on the coast lost tourists

Cristian Petrescu: Hoteliers lose the seaside tourists will not offer all inclusive packages * bad image of Romania brings benefits - go pleasantly surprised tourists

The seaside hotel owners earn more from selling food if not all-inclusive packages, although this system would bring more tourists, said Minister of Regional Development and Tourism, Cristian Petrescu Thursday at ITB Berlin Tourism Fair, according to Tuesday.

"I think that obviously loose and lost tourists, but if he agrees to take such hotels without all inclusive, and their calculations show that it deserves, a dancer's business. Those who should provide these all-inclusive packages have other interests. Perhaps not so profitable for them as if they sell separate tables, "said Cristian Petrescu.


Tourism Minister also said that hoteliers should understand that less profit from more people can equal more revenue from fewer tourists.

"We are going at their discretion, are private and we can not require you to make these packages, in addition to a recommendation that would be better to do, to enter other markets," added the Minister.
Minister of Regional Development and Tourism has approached the problem of negative image that Romania is among foreign tourists adding that this has some benefits. The minister said foreign tourists come with very low expectations in Romania and leave pleasantly surprised.

"From the discussions we had with German tour operators not reproach us too much. Most tourists who come to Romania by these tour operators [...] leave with the feeling that they found something else than what they expected because they have very low expectations and that things are in Romania are different from the expected them, "said Cristian Petrescu.

The Minister added that foreigners are happy with what found in Romania. "The fact that when you return from Romania have the feeling that you get more than what you expect I think it's a good thing and that we can build a lot further," said Petrescu.
Source: hotnews.ro


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Cristian Petrescu: Hoteliers Meer verlieren die Touristen nicht bieten All-Inclusive-Pakete * schlechtes Image Rumäniens bringt Vorteile - gehen angenehm überraschten Touristen

Die Seaside Hotel Besitzer verdienen mehr aus dem Verkauf von Lebensmitteln, wenn nicht all-inclusive-Pakete, obwohl dieses System mehr Touristen bringen würde, sagte der Minister für Regionale Entwicklung und Tourismus, Cristian Petrescu Donnerstag auf der ITB Berlin Tourismus-Messe, nach Dienstag.

"Ich denke, dass offensichtlich locker und verlorene Touristen, aber wenn er zu solchen ohne All-Inclusive-Hotels nehmen stimmt, und ihre Berechnungen zeigen, dass es, verdient eine Tänzerin das Geschäft. Diejenigen, die diese All-inclusive-Pakete stellen sollte haben andere Interessen. Vielleicht nicht so profitabel für sie, als ob sie getrennte Tabellen zu verkaufen ", sagte Cristian Petrescu.



Tourismus-Minister sagte auch, dass Hoteliers sollten verstehen, dass weniger Gewinn von mehr Menschen können mehr Einnahmen aus weniger Touristen entsprechen.

"Wir sind nach eigenem Ermessen gehen, sind privat und können wir nicht verlangen, dass Sie diese Pakete zu machen, zusätzlich zu einer Empfehlung, die besser zu tun wäre, um andere Märkte zu erschließen", ergänzte der Minister.
Minister für Regionale Entwicklung und Tourismus hat das Problem der negativen Image, dass Rumänien bei ausländischen Touristen hinzu, dass dies einige Vorteile hat, ist angesprochen. Der Minister sagte, ausländische Touristen kommen mit sehr niedrigen Erwartungen in Rumänien und verlassen angenehm überrascht.

"Aus den Gesprächen hatten wir mit deutschen Reiseveranstaltern nicht zum Vorwurf machen uns zu viel. Die meisten Touristen, die nach Rumänien kommen, die von diesen Reiseveranstalter [...] verlassen mit dem Gefühl, dass sie etwas anderes als das, was sie erwartet gefunden, weil sie sehr niedrige Erwartungen haben und dass die Dinge in Rumänien unterscheiden sich von den erwarteten sie ", sagte Cristian Petrescu.

Der Minister fügte hinzu, dass die Ausländer zufrieden mit dem, was in Rumänien gefunden werden. "Die Tatsache, dass, wenn Sie aus Rumänien zurückzukehren habe das Gefühl, dass Sie mehr als das, was Sie erwarten, ich denke, es ist eine gute Sache zu bekommen und dass wir viel weiter aufbauen", sagte Petrescu.
Quelle: hotnews.ro

German tourist returning unspent money in Romania

German tourists who come for holidays in Romania is back with much of the unspent money to the recreational infrastructure is missing, and hoteliers have interactive programs to keep customers in restaurants, said Toni Messerschmidt, owner of German agents.
"Hoteliers do not know to make the German tourists to spend money in Romania. A German tourist comes with at least 500 euros him pocket money, but the average amount of money available to be spent on vacation is 2-3000 euros, "he told AFP Messerschmidt, who emigrated from Romania 80 years and founded Messerschmidt Reisen travel agency.
Messerschmidt said that the Germans back with money they spend holidays in Romania and that, on average, spend 3-400 euros, almost all the food and drink.
"There are no hotels in Romania that has animation, and the bars are no special programs, interactive. In Spain, for example, were animals in tourist hotels to stay in the bar and drink. There are organized in a restaurant every night - playing bingo, organized dances and all sorts of other programs.
In Romania there is not even of national souvenirs, and are not recreational programs. There are no boats or boats for cruises on the sea, between stations, as Bulgarians, jetski's only dangerous for many foreign tourists, who are no longer young, "he said, present at the Tourism Fair in Berlin.
Messerschmidt Reisen Agency annually brings some 1,200 German Romanian seaside.
The businessman added that Romanian tourism is a bad image in Germany because of thieves, beggars and prostitutes from Romania. However, Germany is the first provider of foreign tourists to Romania.
Last year, nearly 207,000 German tourists visited Romania, up by 12.1%.
Romania participates in ITB Berlin on March 7-11, the largest tourism fair in the world both in size and in number of visitors. At present Romania's stand of 45 exhibitors.
Source: zf.ro

Brasov is promoted to the Berlin Tourism Fair 7-11 march 2012

For the first time, our city wants to attract visitors with a new concept: medical tourism.

Brasov "We come up with something new at the fair. It is medical tourism. The concept is new, "Medical Holidays", but comes out very well. Basically, after several discussions with private unităţatile, we selected four of them and made brochures showing prices of services offered to the highest standards by clinics in Brasov, compared with average prices charged in the European Union.

Of course, on this occasion we promote and medieval festivals are already a tradition in Brasov county, "said Christian Macedonschi, president of the Association for Tourism Promotion and Development of Brasov, quoted by newsbv.ro.

Romania is present in Berlin, from March 7 to 11, with a stall arranged by the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism. Berlin Fair is the largest in the world and attracts every year hundreds of thousands of visitors.

News source: The Truth

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

NATA Meeting - Embassy of Indonesia, March 5, 2012

On March 5, 2012 took place at the NATA, a meeting with a delegation from the Indonesian Embassy, headed by chief economic Juang Bakara. The meeting took place at the request of our guests interested to discuss opportunities to promote Indonesia as a tourist destination on the Romanian market. NATA President attended the Association, Ms Corina Martin, General Secretary John Dobrescu and marketing / PR Adriana Caranfil.

In the discussions we have established a partnership between NATA and the Embassy of Indonesia, which we will build together a marketing strategy that will include a infotrip organization in Indonesia, the Indonesian TO attract tourism fairs, an event dedicated to promoting Indonesia in Bucharest, publishing a brochure in Romanian, Indonesian partners on costs, which will be distributed to State agencies (as was done with Mexico and the Embassy of Japan), attracting advertising and magazine interviews in NATA, launching promotional messages by the network of agencies NATA, etc..

The Indonesian delegation has expressed interest to establish the Roman tourist profile amateur exotic vacations, and established the importance of a questionnaire to highlight trends in the evolution of sales over the past three years Indonesia destination. To evaluate the interest shown by Romanian tourists who purchased this destination through travel agencies shall ANAT, I kindly ask you to appreciate the absolute and percentage evolution of this destination sales in 2011 compared to 2010 and 2009.


Photo Source: ANAT
Please send responses to your own, in order to centralize their e-mail address: 
mihaela.vidovici@ anat.ro adviser Outgoing Commission.

Sincerely,
Adriana Caranfil