The National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT) announces its support for maintaining the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Tourism (MAT), but with industry specialists in leadership. ANAT believes that promotion structures must be funded by the tourist tax, paid by tourists, as is done worldwide, not from the state budget or through overtaxing businesses.<\/p>\n
The meeting was attended by Tudori\u0163a Lungu, State Secretary within the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Tourism (MAT), and George Borun\u0103, General Director of the General Directorate for Tourism within MAT, alongside prominent representatives of significant tourism organizations and Romanian entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n
Additionally, ANAT supports the establishment of a national DMO. Promotion structures must be funded by the tourist tax, paid by tourists, as is done worldwide, not from the state budget or through overtaxing businesses.<\/p>\n
The National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT) has been a member of the European Travel Agents’ and Tour Operators’ Associations (ECTAA) since 1999.<\/p>\n
What is ANAT’s stance on the leadership of MAT?<\/strong><\/p>\n ANAT advocates for the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Tourism to be led specifically by experienced industry specialists.<\/p>\n How does ANAT propose funding tourism promotion?<\/strong><\/p>\n The association suggests that promotion should be funded by a tourist tax paid by visitors, rather than relying on the state budget or business taxes.<\/p>\n What is ANAT’s international standing?<\/strong><\/p>\n ANAT has been a recognized member of the European Travel Agents’ and Tour Operators’ Associations (ECTAA) since 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT) announces its support for maintaining the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Tourism (MAT), but with industry specialists in leadership. ANAT believes that promotion structures must be funded by the tourist tax, paid by tourists, as is done worldwide, not from the state budget or through overtaxing businesses. The meeting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":91433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[3186,1229,961,1139,863,1132],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-116125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","tag-anat-en","tag-asociatia-nationala-a-agentiilor-de-turism","tag-mat","tag-ministerului-antreprenoriatului-si-turismului","tag-specialisti","tag-tudorita-lungu"],"article_style_override":"on","post-style":"style2","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116125"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=116125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}