{"id":121634,"date":"2017-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/employers-asked-the-minister-of-tourism-to-extend-a-hotel-tax-nationwide-that-is-currently-optional-for-local-authorities\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:24:14","slug":"employers-asked-the-minister-of-tourism-to-extend-a-hotel-tax-nationwide-that-is-currently-optional-for-local-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/employers-asked-the-minister-of-tourism-to-extend-a-hotel-tax-nationwide-that-is-currently-optional-for-local-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers asked the Minister of Tourism to extend a hotel tax nationwide that is currently optional for local authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Tourism employers asked the relevant minister, during a debate on the draft Tourism Law, to extend a hotel tax nationwide that is currently optional for local authorities.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>In response, the Minister of Tourism, Mircea Dobre, pointed out that he did not intend to establish new taxes, but will make this proposal to the governing coalition.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At the same time, Drago\u0219 Anastasiu, a member of the National Association of Travel Agencies in Romania, emphasized that this would not be a new tax, but rather the transformation of a tax that already exists, optionally, at the local authority level, into a mandatory tax at the national level.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWith the mention that the money should be used in public-private partnerships at the local, regional, and national levels, this is the condition. If you don&#8217;t specify this, leave the money with the people, because rather than sitting in town hall accounts, it&#8217;s better off with the people,\u201d stated Anastasiu.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mircea Dobre specified that the ministry&#8217;s intention is to approve the draft Tourism Law in the Government by November 15, so that Parliament can vote by the end of the current session.<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wall-street.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Wall-Street<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>What are tourism employers requesting regarding the hotel tax?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tourism employers are asking for the current optional local hotel tax to be made mandatory at a national level to ensure consistent funding for the industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How will the funds from the mandatory hotel tax be used?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to industry representatives, the condition for this tax is that the funds must be invested in public-private partnerships for tourism promotion at local, regional, and national levels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the timeline for the new Tourism Law?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Tourism aims to have the draft law approved by the Government by November 15, with a parliamentary vote expected by the end of the current session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism employers asked the relevant minister, during a debate on the draft Tourism Law, to extend a hotel tax nationwide that is currently optional for local authorities. &nbsp; In response, the Minister of Tourism, Mircea Dobre, pointed out that he did not intend to establish new taxes, but will make this proposal to the governing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-121634","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\/121634","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=121634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121634"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=121634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}