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Tourism: Turkish investors: Bucharest is a city break destination preferred by foreign tourists
Bucharest is a city break destination preferred by foreign tourists in the last two years, because it offers quality services and products at prices lower than other European states, but information lacks, there are few tourist information centres and there are not enough maps for orientation in the street, said Gulen Hashmi, the general manager of Tempo Hotel in Bucharest.
He showed that most tourists come from Israel, Italy, Great Britain, Germany who stay for two nights, on the average.
Hashmi points out there is increased demand for weekends, which shows that there are customers who come for tourist purposes. The increase is due to the fact that Bucharest is a safe city where foreign tourists find quality services and products at lower prices.
Hashmi says that the main attractions in Bucharest are the Old City Center, night life, good prices, low living prices compared to those in Western Europe as well as cultural events and life. Moreover, Romania’s capital has many parks and green areas.
On the other hand, the main problems faced by the city are, from the tourist point of view, the lack of information and few tourist information centres.
Other drawbacks could be low presence on the Internet, the lack of a commercial site promoting Bucharest and the fact that there are not enough maps for street orientation.
Bucharest had last year an accommodation capacity of 7.4 million beds. Tourists come to Bucharest mainly from Germany, Italy, Israel, France, USA, Austria, Great Britain, Spain and Holland. Poland, Greece and Israel are from emerging markets.
Bucharest is, in Hashmi’s opinion, one of the developing tourist cities in Europe. With over 2.4 million inhabitants, Bucharest is the 6th city in EU.
The number of foreign tourists for Bucharest was 1.1 millions last year, on the rise by over 11% against 2015. The overall number of nights spent in Bucharest was 1,869,820, that is 1.69 nights per foreign tourist.
Romania, received 2.48 million foreign tourists last year and hosted half of them.
In 2010 there were 598,067 foreign tourists, so their number doubled in 7-8 years. 822,404 Romanians were present in Bucharest in 2016.
In the first three months of the ongoing year, Bucharest received 650,318 tourists against 628,742 in the same period of 2016. Of them, 237,491 were foreign tourists, on the rise against 2015 when 212,481 foreign tourists were recorded.