{"id":122770,"date":"2016-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/over-1-million-foreign-tourists-spent-e615m-in-romania-in-h1\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T15:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:59:36","slug":"over-1-million-foreign-tourists-spent-e615m-in-romania-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/over-1-million-foreign-tourists-spent-e615m-in-romania-in-h1\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1 Million Foreign Tourists Spent \u20ac615M in Romania in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In the first six months of this year, Romania was visited by over 1 million foreign tourists, over 100,000 more than in the same period of 2015, according to INS data. Most foreign tourists came from Germany, Italy, Israel, but the number of tourists from the Netherlands and Poland also increased.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They spent \u20ac615 million in our country, \u20ac33 million more than in the first half of 2015. Over half of this amount, 59%, was intended for business visits, and the rest for vacations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In first place in the spending rankings are tourists from Israel, who spent \u20ac81 million for vacations in Romania, up from \u20ac63.5 million in the first semester of 2015.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The following countries in the spending rankings are: Germany &#8211; \u20ac60.38 million, Italy &#8211; \u20ac52 million, United Kingdom &#8211; \u20ac43.4 million, USA &#8211; \u20ac41.3 million, France &#8211; \u20ac32.5 million, Poland &#8211; \u20ac32.22 million, Hungary &#8211; \u20ac24 million, Netherlands &#8211; \u20ac20.3 million, and Turkey &#8211; \u20ac18.5 million.<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economica.net\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Economica<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>How many foreign tourists visited Romania in the first half of the year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 1 million foreign tourists visited Romania in H1, representing an increase of more than 100,000 compared to the same period in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which country&#8217;s tourists spent the most in Romania?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tourists from Israel ranked first in spending, contributing \u20ac81 million to the Romanian economy during the first semester.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the primary reason for foreign tourist visits?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Business trips were the primary driver, accounting for 59% of the total \u20ac615 million spent by foreign visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first six months of this year, Romania was visited by over 1 million foreign tourists, over 100,000 more than in the same period of 2015, according to INS data. Most foreign tourists came from Germany, Italy, Israel, but the number of tourists from the Netherlands and Poland also increased. They spent \u20ac615 million&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-122770","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\/122770","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=122770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122770"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=122770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}