In the ranking of favorite destinations for Romanians in 2020 compiled by eSky, Romania ranked first with 55% of the total number of bookings, followed by the United Kingdom with 15% of total bookings and Germany with 8%, Italy with 6%, Spain and France with 4%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Comparing the 2020 period with that of 2019, bookings from Romania to other countries decreased by 33%, a much lower percentage than anticipated by the industry, according to the online travel agency eSky, which conducted an analysis of 2020 trends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus, in the top of favorite destinations for Romanians in a pandemic year, Romania ranked first with 55% of the total number of bookings, followed by the United Kingdom with 15% of the total number of bookings, Germany – 8%, followed by Italy – 6%, Spain and France with 4%, and Belgium with 2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Company representatives specified that while in previous years London was the preferred city for tourists, in 2020, the city of Bucharest ranked first with 55% of bookings, followed by London – 17% and Iasi with 7%. In terms of preferences, these cities were followed by Cluj, Timisoara, Bacau, Paris, and Brussels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Company representatives stated that during the pandemic, a new trend called “travel bubble” was born, consisting of traveling abroad to neighboring countries and relatively close to the traveler’s country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2020, intercontinental travel decreased by 76%, and intra-continental travel by 52%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The number of travel insurance policies sold in 2020 was lower than in 2019, but it is noteworthy that the number of bookings with purchased travel insurance increased.<\/p>\n\n\n
Romania was the top destination, accounting for 55% of the total bookings made by Romanian tourists.<\/p>Which cities were preferred by tourists during the pandemic?<\/strong> Bucharest ranked first with 55% of bookings, followed by London (17%) and Iasi (7%).<\/p>What does the “travel bubble” trend represent?<\/strong> This concept refers to traveling to neighboring countries or destinations located relatively close to the traveler’s home country.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the ranking of favorite destinations for Romanians in 2020 compiled by eSky, Romania ranked first with 55% of the total number of bookings, followed by the United Kingdom with 15% of total bookings and Germany with 8%, Italy with 6%, Spain and France with 4%. Comparing the 2020 period with that of 2019, bookings…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":70039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2859],"tags":[358,2898],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-117997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stirea-editiei-en","tag-destinatie","tag-romania-en"],"article_style_override":"on","post-style":"style2","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/topstory.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117997","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=117997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117997"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=117997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}