{"id":120772,"date":"2018-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/dragos-anastasiu-claims-ins-tourism-data-is-incorrect\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:55:16","slug":"dragos-anastasiu-claims-ins-tourism-data-is-incorrect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/dragos-anastasiu-claims-ins-tourism-data-is-incorrect\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragos Anastasiu claims INS tourism data is incorrect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On July 10, the Vice President of the National Association of Travel Agencies, ANAT, Dragos Anastasiu, participated in Constanta at the launch of the first Romanian tourism barometer, &ldquo;The White Paper on Romanian Tourism,&rdquo; a work produced by the National Council of Private Small and Medium Enterprises in Romania, CNIPMMR.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He stated that the figures from the National Institute of Statistics, INS, regarding the number of tourists are not correct, and if the Ministry of Tourism were interested in finding out the exact data, it would hire a firm specialized in providing such data.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&ldquo;The Ministry should not rely on the INS. There are specialized firms worldwide that do this, tourism data. And if the Ministry ever had the interest to obtain correct tourism data, it doesn&#8217;t need that hotel monitoring system, it doesn&#8217;t need anything else but a contract with one of these firms and it will receive figures, which are not based on counting grain by grain, but are based on, so to speak, exit polls. This is what firms do all over the world, so such possibilities exist,&rdquo; mentioned Dragos Anastasiu.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The National Council of Private Small and Medium Enterprises in Romania and Groupama Insurance organized on Tuesday, in Constanta, the launch of the first Romanian tourism barometer, &ldquo;The White Paper on Romanian Tourism,&rdquo; with representatives of tourism investors, promotion associations, and travel agencies present at the event.<\/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>Who is Dragos Anastasiu?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dragos Anastasiu is the Vice President of the National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT) and a prominent investor in the Romanian tourism sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the &#8220;White Paper on Romanian Tourism&#8221;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is the first tourism barometer in Romania, developed by CNIPMMR to provide a comprehensive overview and analysis of the industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is the INS tourism data being criticized?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anastasiu claims official statistics are inaccurate and suggests that the Ministry should hire specialized firms to conduct exit-poll style data collection for more realistic figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 10, the Vice President of the National Association of Travel Agencies, ANAT, Dragos Anastasiu, participated in Constanta at the launch of the first Romanian tourism barometer, &ldquo;The White Paper on Romanian Tourism,&rdquo; a work produced by the National Council of Private Small and Medium Enterprises in Romania, CNIPMMR. He stated that the figures&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-120772","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\/120772","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=120772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120772"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=120772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}