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Museum of Romanian Peasant receives Certificate of Excellence from TripAdvisor
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The National Museum of Romanian Peasant (MTR) received the Certificate of Excellence 2013 from the tourist promotion website TripAdvisor, the culture institution announced through a release.According to the cited source, the Romanian Museum was acknowledged as 'a popular attraction, due to the tourists active on the largest tourist promotion website worldwide.''The award certifies the very good image the ...
Adventure tourism for daring ones: rafting, Tyrolean traverse, rock climbing, zorbing
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Mountain biking, rafting on Crisul Repede River, stormy slides on Tyrolean traverse and rock climbing assisted by speleologists are some of the adventures that the adrenaline-seeking tourists can experience in Bihor County (west).Bihor County is one of Romania's regions that are blessed with natural beauties, such as the hills of Oradea and Bihor Peak (1,849 metres), with the opportunities for ...
Trade: Romanians continue to be fascinated with luxury brands in 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Brands such as Porsche, Ferrari, Burberry or Hugo Boss are in 2013 on top of Romanians' preference chart, the most important component of these options being given, in a proportion of 27 percent, by the brand's responsibility, according to a ranking made up by Biz publication and Unlock Market Research company.The top place of the 50 Fascinating Brands' chart this year is taken as a first by ...
Telecom.IT: EC approves Romania and another eight member states' request for postponement of 4G technology use
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The European Commission (EC) agreed on Tuesday to the postponement of the use of the 800 MHz band for wireless broadband due to exceptional reasons for nine member states, Romania included. Romania was granted a derogation until mid-2014 for the use of the 4G technology.The EC informed in a release that 14 member states that missed the January 1, 2013 deadline they had originally agreed to had ...
Agriculture : AgriMin Constantin: Developing irrigation to capitalise on farm potentials, Romania's priority
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Developing irrigations to capitalise on its renowned agriculture potentials is Romania's priority, Romania's Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin said Friday in Madrid at the end of an official visit to Spain. Moreover he said his Spanish counterpart Miguel Arias Canete accepted an invitation to visit Romania this year or next spring at the latest.'Romania ‘s priority is to develop the irrigation sector to capitalise on its ...
Varga: Uncontrolled deforestation rate is twice higher than regeneration and tree planting rate
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The rate of uncontrolled forest cutting is two times higher than the rate of nationwide regeneration and afforestation measures financed from the budget; a massive afforestation program will be launched in autumn this year, Minister-delegate for Water, Forests and Fisheries Lucia Varga said.'According to available data, the rate of uncontrolled forest cutting is two times higher than that of the national forest regeneration or planting ...
Romania votes against set of criteria in proposal for Regulation on European Maritime and Fisheries Fund
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting adopted on Monday by a qualified majority the proposal for a Regulation on the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) for the 2014 - 2020 financial framework. Romania and Bulgaria voted against the general approach of the proposal, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development informed in a release.The meeting of the EU Ministers for Agriculture and Fisheries took place in ...
Cars: ACEA: Dacia cars sale scores major advance, in Europe, in June
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The Dacia cars sale scored major advance, in Europe (the EU plus EFTA countries), in June, the Romanian car maker's market quota growing up from 2 to 2.5 percent, read the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) figures made public on last Tuesday. As many as 28,844 Dacia cars ...
Infrastructure: Streets of Romanian towns and cities are longer than 23,000 km, in 2012
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The streets of Romania's town and cities totaled 28,339 km, on Dec 31 in 2012, the rehabilitated streets, there, measuring 17,933 km, namely 63.3 percent of it, National Statistics Institute (INS) reported on Thursday.The green space, including parks, public gardens, play-places for kids, sports bases of the municipalities and towns covered 22,912 ha, late in 2012.Likewise, the ...
Telecom.IT: GfK Survey: Romania prefer to buy new PC, phones
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Most Romanians prefer to buy new IT and telecom products, writes local paper Daily Business citing data from the GfK Temax survey conducted by GfK Omnibus. Some 82 percent of Romanians who own a mobile phone say they bought it as new. The preference for new products is due in part to the favorable offers of telephone operators for new devices and the desire of people to own a phone which is fresh out of the factory as a guarantee for a long smooth ...
Healthcare: Romanians promised new health cards in 2014
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
After a two-year delay and among irregularities allegations on health card contracts awarding, Romanians are promised to finally get their new health cards next year, together with their ID cards. Those who will be issued an new ID card will no longer need a separate health card, as the medical data will be included on the ID card. For those who do not need to change their ID card, a separate health card ...
Trade: Top of biggest DIY retailers
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The Do it Yourself market was dominated by the main local players in 2012. The business of Dedeman, Arabesque and Ambient retailers exceeded 1 billion euro for the first time. Except for Dedeman, Ambient, Hornbach and Leroy Merlin, the whole market was affected in 2012 even with more than 20% compared to the previous year. The French DIY ...
The most profitable commercial centers in Bucharest
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Sun Plaza Mall, Plaza Mall and Cocor registered last year overall losses of 27.5 million euro, exceeding the profit of 21.96 million euro cumulated by Baneasa Shopping City, Cotroceni Park, Unirea Shopping Center, Bucuresti Mall and Grand Arena. The business figure of the 8 malls analysed according to data supplied by the Trade Registrar ...
Tourism: Event industry generated 70-80% of hotel incomes in Bucharest
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
ncomes in Bucharest, according to Radu Cimponeriu, MICE expert. “Romania is not yet seen as destination for the event industry. It is an opportunity to which we should allocate more resources. At European level a participant spent on the average 1,620 euro per event, which means about 437 euro/delegate/daily, compared to a tourist who spends 150 euro/day on the average. In Romania, the participant in an event spends less, about 250 ...
Share of Romanian tourism in GDP – 5.2%
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The direct contribution of tourism to GDP is about 1.5% less than the world average of 5.2%, said Calin Ile, general manager of Ibis Gara de Nord Hotel at a specialized press conference. “In other countries in the region the contribution of tourism to GDP is higher: in Croatia it is 11.9%, in Hungary 5.8% and in Bulgaria 3.8%. The number of employees in tourism in Romania is 2.3% of the ...
Real estate: Real estate market: 20% more transactions in 5 months
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The number of real estate transactions grew by 20% (323,419) in the first five months of the year compared to the same period of 2012, while mortgages registered with the National Agency of Cadastre and Real Estate Advertising slightly dropped. The number of real estate transactions grew by over 55,000 in the first five months of 2013 ...
Tourism : Dracula project to promote Transylvania as tourism destination to be the most profitable strategy
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The Dracula project to promote Transylvania as tourism destination represents the most profitable strategy that can be found for the development of the tourism in this region, according to a release of the Romanian Federation of Tourism and Service Employers (FPTS).‘Finally, the local authorities in Transylvania understood that the Dracula myth represents an unrivaled vehicle for promoting tourism in this region. Building on this ...
Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova Establish Common Tourist Route
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Tourism managers from Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova have established a new tourist route which targets Europeans, citizens of the former Soviet republics, as well as Bulgarians, Romanians and Moldovans.The tour is to last eight days, seven nights, and to offer a range of attractions, according to reports of Romanian daily Adevarul, as cited by the Bulgarian Telegraph ...
Romania to open another two tourist offices in Japan and Dubai
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The number of Romania's tourist offices abroad will go up from 9 at present to 11 by opening, in the time to come, another two representative offices in Japan and Dubai, said Minister Delegate for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, the Business Environment and Tourism Maria Grapini on Monday.'In the time to come we shall open another ...
Praid salt mine records increasing number of tourists, patients
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The number of tourists who visit the Praid salt mine (Harghita County, centre) is on the rise, the peak months being July and August, when over 140,000 tourists will descend into the mine.Praid Salt Mine Tourist Service's head Ilie Colorian said that the salt mine was visited in May by some 5,000 tourists more than in the same period of last year, and June's number was still higher than that in June 2012.The salt mine ...