{"id":123305,"date":"2016-06-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/spa-tourism-romanias-chance-to-go-global\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:08:06","slug":"spa-tourism-romanias-chance-to-go-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/spa-tourism-romanias-chance-to-go-global\/","title":{"rendered":"Spa Tourism &#8211; Romania&#8217;s Chance to Go Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Dumitru Fechete, the director of the President hotel complex in Baile Felix, stated that Romania&#8217;s chance to stand out globally is spa tourism. Romania is rich in tourist attractions, but it cannot compete with its seaside resorts and mountain slopes against countries like Spain, Italy, Greece, Austria, or France.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Romania holds two-thirds of Europe&#8217;s potential for spa tourism and, for example, the Baile Felix resort has a water quality rated with index 9, meaning no nitrites and nitrates, which even makes the Czechs boast that they are in the top tier after Romania in this regard.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The President of the ANT claims that, in the short and medium term, spa tourism could bring in 500 million USD, but the quality of services is important, not just the price.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Another problem why foreign tour operators do not bring foreign tourists to Romanian spa resorts is that the Romanian state does not have subsidies for them. Thus, many foreign travel agencies prefer to take thousands of foreign tourists to Heviz, the most famous spa resort in Hungary, because for every person brought there, by plane or coach, the Hungarian state reimburses an amount that covers a large part of the transport cost.<\/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 is Romania&#8217;s potential in spa tourism?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Romania holds approximately two-thirds of Europe&#8217;s total spa tourism potential, making it a major player in the sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is the water in Baile Felix considered high quality?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The water in Baile Felix has a quality index of 9, meaning it is free of nitrites and nitrates, surpassing many other European destinations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What challenges does Romanian spa tourism face?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main challenges include the lack of state subsidies for foreign tourists&#8217; transport and the need to focus on service quality over price to compete with neighboring countries like Hungary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dumitru Fechete, the director of the President hotel complex in Baile Felix, stated that Romania&#8217;s chance to stand out globally is spa tourism. Romania is rich in tourist attractions, but it cannot compete with its seaside resorts and mountain slopes against countries like Spain, Italy, Greece, Austria, or France. Romania holds two-thirds of Europe&#8217;s potential&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-123305","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\/123305","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=123305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123305"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=123305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}