{"id":120394,"date":"2019-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/christian-tour-is-the-only-agency-not-sanctioned-by-the-competition-council-at-the-end-of-the-investigation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T20:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:38:43","slug":"christian-tour-is-the-only-agency-not-sanctioned-by-the-competition-council-at-the-end-of-the-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/christian-tour-is-the-only-agency-not-sanctioned-by-the-competition-council-at-the-end-of-the-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Tour is the only agency not sanctioned by the Competition Council at the end of the investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Christian Tour, the largest Romanian tour operator, the only agency that was not sanctioned by the Competition Council in its tourism investigation, announces in a press release that it refused to join price-fixing agreements with competing agencies, to the detriment of the tourist, a fact for which it was blamed and attacked by some of its competitors, who coalesced against it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The tour operator received immunity from the fine after the investigation began due to its cooperation with the Competition Council during the inquiry, which also took into account the constant fair behavior of Christian Tour on the market, the tour operator claims.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&bdquo;After the investigation was triggered, the decision taken by the Christian Tour management was to collaborate fully and transparently with the representatives of the Competition Council to find out the truth and in the spirit of respecting the law,&rdquo; Marius Pandel, one of the shareholders of Christian Tour, stated in a press release.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The e-mail correspondence between the representatives of the travel agencies, gathered by the investigators in a voluminous report of several hundred pages, shows, among other things, the way in which the main actors in the tourism market set the prices for charter flight holidays, as well as their strategy to prevent the Christian Tour agency from operating charters in certain destinations, the press release also states.<\/div>\n<div><\/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>Why was Christian Tour not sanctioned by the Competition Council?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christian Tour received immunity because it refused to participate in price-fixing agreements and cooperated fully with the authorities during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the investigation reveal about the Romanian tourism market?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The investigation uncovered evidence of price-fixing for charter vacations and attempts by some agencies to block competitors from certain destinations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is Marius Pandel?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marius Pandel is one of the shareholders of Christian Tour who emphasized the company&#8217;s commitment to transparency and legal compliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Tour, the largest Romanian tour operator, the only agency that was not sanctioned by the Competition Council in its tourism investigation, announces in a press release that it refused to join price-fixing agreements with competing agencies, to the detriment of the tourist, a fact for which it was blamed and attacked by some of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-120394","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\/120394","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=120394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120394"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=120394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}