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Blue Air Suspended Flights On 20 Routes During The Summer
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
The low-cost airline Blue Air recently canceled flights scheduled for the summer season on at least 20 air routes to and from Romania, according ...
Trade: InfoCons: 40% of Romanian young people buy counterfeit products on purpose
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
About 40% of young people in Romania have intentionally bought a counterfeit product, while 14% willingly accessed pirated content, according to a study made over February 7-28, published by InfoCons. According to the same study, 61% of young Romanians prefer to access digital content from legal sources, compared to 60% at European level, and 50% in 2019. Some ...
Study: Almost 60 pct of Romanian retailers report increasing sales during pandemic
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Approximately 60% of Romanian retailers reported increases in sales during the pandemic, while the number of online orders increased by 57%, according to a study conducted by the digital trading platform VTEX.According to VTEX data released on Tuesday, in order to adapt to the changes brought about by the pandemic, between March 2020 and March 2022, the companies made decisions such as: diversifying their portfolio (62%), increasing the marketing budget (48%) and ...
The retail turnover in April 2022
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
- Compared to March 2022, in April 2022 the retail turnover volume (excluding the trade with motor vehicles and motorcycles) increased both as gross series by 3.4% and as adjusted series according to the number of working days and to seasonality by 0.3%. ? - Compared to April 2021, in April 2022 the retail turnover volume (excluding the trade with motor vehicles and motorcycles) increased both as gross series and as ...
Cars: Green cars market in full development in Romania
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
The EU trend for environment protection and reduction of CO2 emissions is also followed by Romania. The automobile industry is one of the important pillar backing this tendency by trying to become more and more “green”. Thus Romania started counting for the chapter of electric and hybrid-plug in cars, while the recharge station network for these vehicles ...
Tourism : Approximately 1.4 million Romanians will visit Greece this summer
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
The Greek border authorities estimate that the number of Romanian tourists predicted for this summer will be approximately 1.4 million Romanian citizens, according to a press release sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE).A delegation from MAE was in the Greek Republic on May 27 and 28, where they had a series of technical meetings with representatives of Greek and Bulgarian local and regional authorities as well as with representatives of Greek ...
Accor to recruit and train over 600 hospitality professionals in Romania by 2025
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Accor, world-leading hospitality group, announces its recruitment and professional growth plans for the upcoming years, in line with the group’s dynamic development pipeline in Romania. The group, which now employs more than 950 people in the country, will add over 600 new employees to its team by 2025, to support the opening and operation of more than 10 new hotels. ”Hospitality offers more than the ...
Arrivals in accommodation units increase by 54.2% in April
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
- Compared to April 2021, in April 2022, the arrivals in the establishments of tourists’ reception with functions of tourists’ accommodation increased by 54.2%, while the overnight stays increased by 58.7%. - Compared to April 2021, in April 2022 customs registered an increase in the arrivals 1) of foreign visitors of 188.7% and an increase of 136.9% in the departures1) abroad of the Romanian ...
ibis Styles hotel to open in Fagaras city in 2024
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Group Accor announced on June 2 that it would open a new ibis Styles hotel in ...
Tourism offers among lowest salaries in Romania
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Tourism is situated among the least paid sectors in the economy, tied with Sport & Wellness or Security and Protection, as such 82% of employees are earning below minimum wage, according to the data published by a recruiting platform.According to the data of Salario, the wage comparison from eJobs, 82% of employees are earning below average wage, which, in March, was 3,937 RON, according to a press release sent ...
Real Estate: Nordis group starts 26.4 mln euro development in Brasov
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Romanian real estate developer Nordis said on Monday it started construction works on a 26.4 million euro ($28.3 million) development in Brasov.The deadline for its completion is set for the end of 2023, the company said in a press release. Developed on a 13,000 sq m plot, the complex will consist of five low-height buildings, with a total of 158 hotel rooms and 43 residential ...
Infrastructure : Henri Coanda airport ranked fourth-worst in the world
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Bucharest’s Henri Coanda airport, along with seven other European airports, was considered one of the worst in the world, according to a survey. Conducted by AirHelp, a passenger rights organization operating in 30 ...
Direct trains connect Bucharest to Turkey and Bulgaria
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Romanian rail operator CFR Calatori introduced direct trains between Bucharest and Halkali/Istanbul (Turkey) and Sofia and Varna (Bulgaria) on June 3. The trains run daily until October 3, 2022. A one-way trip from Bucharest’s Gara de Nord station to Halkali/Istanbul costs EUR 53.2 in a four-seater sleeping car. A Bucharest-Varna ...
Air passenger transport up 3.4 times in Q1 2022
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Air passenger transport increased 3.4 times in Q1 2022, from 916,500 passengers in the first three months of 2021 to 3,085,700 passengers, according to data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).The highest shares in terms of passenger transport were registered at the following airports: Henri Coanda-Bucharest airport, with 1,063,100 passengers boarded and 929,000 landed, Avram Iancu-Cluj-Napoca airport, with 178,400 passengers boarded ...
New road connection with Hungary, through Salonta, within Arad-Oradea Express Road project
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
The president of the Bihor County Council, Ilie Bolojan, on Tuesday stated that Romania will be connected to Western Europe by a new road to be linked with the M44 highway in Hungary, which will be an express road.According to a press release of the Bihor County Council, the new project was approved at the Romanian - Hungarian bilateral meeting in the field of transport, held in Hungary last week, on May 26.The road will connect the towns of ...
Agriculture: National Forest Inventory up by only 0.04 pct in 2021, volume of harvested timber up by 1.7 pct
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
The National Forest Inventory increased by 0.04% in 2021 compared to the previous year, while the volume of harvested timber went up by 1.7%, according to data published on Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).As of December 31, 2021, the forest inventory area was 6,606,618 hectares (+2,412 hectares compared to 2020), of which the forest area totaled 6,449,456 hectares. This year saw an increase of only 39 hectares, with the forest area ...
Cars: Roughly 500 used luxury automobiles registered in Romania January through April
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Roughly 500 used luxury cars were registered in Romania in the first four months of the year, according to an analysis published on Thursday by an online vehicle trading platform.According to the centralized data, based on the information requested from the Directorate for Driving Licenses and Vehicle Registration (DRPCIV), Romanians have increasingly large budgets for cars and buy second-hand automobiles of over 300,000 - 400,000 euros.Between January ...
New vehicle registrations in Romania, up 19pct in May 2022
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
More than 12,000 new vehicles were registered in Romania in May 2022, up 19% from the same period in 2021, according to a preliminary analysis published by the Association of Automobile Manufacturers and Importers (APIA), based on data from the Directorate of Driving Permits and Vehicle Registration (DRPCIV).Out of the total of 12,125 registered vehicles, 10,198 units were motor vehicles, up 24% over the reference period.The top five brands ...
Increase of over 30% of new car registrations in Romania January through May
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Registrations of new cars in Romania reached, in the first five months of the year, 47,645 units, up by 32.92% compared to the similar interval in 2021, when 35,845 units were registered, reads the data of the Directorate for Driving Licenses and Vehicle Registration (DRPCIV), cited by the Association of Automobile Manufacturers in Romania (ACAROM).According to official statistics, in May there was an increase of 24.05% in new car registrations, up to a ...
Tourism: The hotel market has been hit hard by the pandemic and is expected to fully recover by 2024
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Until 2023, 20 new hotels could be delivered to the market in Romania, approximately 50% of them being situated in the capital city, show the Chairry Design&Furniture estimates, company specialized on the segment of fit-out – complete interior design and furniture solutions. The company signed in 2021 and in the first part of 2022 interior design for over ...