The European Commission has proposed that Timi\u0219oara become the European Capital of Culture only in 2023, as the pandemic has had a negative impact on tourism and cultural initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amidst the coronavirus crisis, the Commission decided to offer the cities of Rijeka (Croatia) and Galway (Ireland), which currently hold this title, the possibility to maintain their status as European Capitals of Culture until April 30, 2021. Thus, the two cities will have the chance to implement the initiatives and programs planned for this year but blocked by pandemic-related restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the same time, the Commission proposes that Novi Sad (Serbia), which was also set to be a European Capital of Culture in 2021, postpone this program until 2022, and that Timi\u0219oara and Elefsina (Greece) take over the title in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before the pandemic, Timi\u0219oara expected more than 800,000 tourists to stay at least one night in the city and over 200,000 day visitors in 2021\u2014when it was originally scheduled to become the European Capital of Culture\u2014a number 2.5 times higher compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n
The postponement was proposed by the European Commission due to the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cultural and tourism sectors.<\/p>\nWhich other cities are affected by these calendar changes?<\/strong>\n The decision affects Rijeka, Galway, Novi Sad, and Elefsina, providing them with additional time to implement their cultural programs.<\/p>\nWhat were the tourism forecasts for Timi\u0219oara before the pandemic?<\/strong>\n Authorities estimated over 800,000 overnight tourists and more than 200,000 day visitors for the original 2021 schedule.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The European Commission has proposed that Timi\u0219oara become the European Capital of Culture only in 2023, as the pandemic has had a negative impact on tourism and cultural initiatives. Amidst the coronavirus crisis, the Commission decided to offer the cities of Rijeka (Croatia) and Galway (Ireland), which currently hold this title, the possibility to maintain…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":69601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[258,2930],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-118289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","tag-capitala-culturala","tag-timisoara-en"],"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\/118289","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=118289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118289"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=118289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}