The businessmen Dror and Assaf Rasin, co-founders of Rina Hotels, one of the largest hoteliers in the Prahova Valley, have teamed up with Israeli billionaire Shalom Meckenzie, who owns the American gaming company DraftKings, and together they bought the 3-star hotels Duke Romană and Duke Armenească from Corina Tanasiciuc, who also owns the Smart Education course center.
Hotel Duke Romană has a total of 40 rooms, and Hotel Duke Armenească has about 30 rooms.
Until 2023, Amstar Management also had Eusebiu Tanasiciuc as a partner, but he left the business. In 2023, the company’s turnover amounted to EUR 2.1 million. Corina Tanasiciuc set up Smart Education in 2013, after a 15-year career as an economist and credit and retail specialist at BCR. The Tanasiciuc family bought Duke Hotels in 2016 from the Spanish investment fund GED, which was also part of the shareholders of the Happy Tour travel agency.
Rina Hotels Group, owned by Sinaia SA – an Israeli-owned company, operates 3 hotels with a total of 364 rooms in Sinaia and Bucharest. The Rina Hotels Group, headed since 2017 by Oryan Ben Nissan, owns the 3-star Rina Sinaia hotel with 243 rooms, 45 of which are in the 4-star category; the 2-star Rina Cerbul hotel in Sinaia with 79 rooms; and the 3-star Trianon hotel in Bucharest with 42 rooms. Last year, Rina Hotels teamed up with Israeli real estate investor Shmuely David Hay to operate an aparthotel to be set up in the recently consolidated historic Brătianu 12 building in the old center of Bucharest. Dror and Assaf Rasin have also set up Olala Homes, which owns tourist properties in major cities in Spain and Portugal (of which they are citizens). The Olala Homes portfolio comprises over 500 accommodation units.