{"id":123275,"date":"2016-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/ant-tourism-could-record-a-growth-of-at-least-18-in-2016\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:04:29","slug":"ant-tourism-could-record-a-growth-of-at-least-18-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/ant-tourism-could-record-a-growth-of-at-least-18-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"ANT: Tourism Could Record a Growth of at Least 18% in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The President of the National Authority for Tourism, ANT, Anca Pavel-Nedea, stated during the international conference &bdquo;Integrated Quality Management for Tourism Destinations: Key to Competitiveness&rdquo; that Romanian tourism could record a growth of at least 18% in 2016, which would thus become the best year since 1989.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&bdquo;I am optimistic and I believe we can reach a growth of at least 18%, even 23-25% for the summer period and cumulatively since the beginning of the year,&rdquo; the ANT president specified.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Anca Pavel-Nedea stated that in the first four months of this year, the industry recorded a growth of 15%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Previously, during the same conference, Taleb Rifai, the Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization, UNWTO, specified that the golden rule in tourism is to invest at least 1% of the generated revenues into promotion. In this regard, Anca Pavel-Nedea pointed out that revenues amount to EUR 1.8 billion, but the promotion budget for this year is only EUR 2 million.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&bdquo;The minimum necessary is EUR 5 million. For the next 4 years, the allocation of a minimum annual budget of about EUR 5 million has been taken into consideration,&rdquo; the ANT president added.<\/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>What is the growth forecast for Romanian tourism in 2016?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Authority for Tourism (ANT) predicts a minimum growth of 18%, with potential peaks of 23-25% during the summer season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does the current promotion budget compare to international recommendations?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the UNWTO recommends investing 1% of revenue (approx. \u20ac18 million), Romania&#8217;s current budget is \u20ac2 million, with plans to increase it to \u20ac5 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the tourism industry perform in early 2016?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the first four months of 2016, the Romanian tourism industry recorded a 15% increase compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the National Authority for Tourism, ANT, Anca Pavel-Nedea, stated during the international conference &bdquo;Integrated Quality Management for Tourism Destinations: Key to Competitiveness&rdquo; that Romanian tourism could record a growth of at least 18% in 2016, which would thus become the best year since 1989. &bdquo;I am optimistic and I believe we can&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-123275","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\/123275","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=123275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123275"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=123275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}