{"id":120176,"date":"2019-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/simion-alb-holiday-vouchers-could-increase-domestic-holiday-costs-by-over-15-this-year\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:24:10","slug":"simion-alb-holiday-vouchers-could-increase-domestic-holiday-costs-by-over-15-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/simion-alb-holiday-vouchers-could-increase-domestic-holiday-costs-by-over-15-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Simion Alb: Holiday vouchers could increase domestic holiday costs by over 15% this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Holiday vouchers are a measure that does not offer equal advantages or opportunities to all potential tourists or all hoteliers, and it would have been better if the state-allocated sum were directed towards investments or towards individuals with modest incomes, for use only during the off-season, stated Simion Alb, tourism specialist and former director of the Romanian National Tourism Office in New York.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He believes it is very possible that the granting of holiday vouchers will cause the cost of domestic holidays to increase by more than 15% this year, which could lead to an increase in demand for holidays abroad.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He appreciates that, in order not to have negative effects on incoming tourism, holiday vouchers should be granted only to low-income individuals, and not just for those working in the public sector, but also in the private sector, and these should be usable exclusively outside the peak season. This could reduce the seasonality of demand and lower the pressure on rates during the peak season.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He says that, on the other hand, holiday vouchers put pressure on room availability and on the rates offered by hoteliers to foreign tourists interested in visiting Romania.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&ldquo;Vouchers should have been used to reduce seasonality, therefore accepted exclusively during off-season periods,&rdquo; Alb stated.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profit.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Profit<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By how much could holiday vouchers increase domestic prices?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to specialist Simion Alb, holiday vouchers could lead to a cost increase of more than 15% for domestic vacations this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the main drawbacks of the current voucher system?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The system creates unequal opportunities, pressures peak-season rates, and reduces room availability for foreign tourists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the proposed solution for holiday vouchers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Experts suggest granting vouchers only to low-income individuals and restricting their use to the off-season to reduce seasonality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday vouchers are a measure that does not offer equal advantages or opportunities to all potential tourists or all hoteliers, and it would have been better if the state-allocated sum were directed towards investments or towards individuals with modest incomes, for use only during the off-season, stated Simion Alb, tourism specialist and former director of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-120176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","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\/120176","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=120176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120176"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=120176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}