{"id":123499,"date":"2016-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/turkey-no-longer-attractive-for-romanian-tourists-shifting-to-greece-croatia-malta-or-spain\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:35:38","slug":"turkey-no-longer-attractive-for-romanian-tourists-shifting-to-greece-croatia-malta-or-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/turkey-no-longer-attractive-for-romanian-tourists-shifting-to-greece-croatia-malta-or-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey no longer attractive for Romanian tourists shifting to Greece, Croatia, Malta, or Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>According to the Fortuna Business Travel agency, requests for vacations in Turkey decreased by approximately 45% in the first months of 2016. The new destinations now attracting tourists are Greece, Croatia, Malta, and Spain.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>About 30% of Romanians with above-average incomes who preferred Turkey have, starting this year, chosen exotic destinations such as the Dominican Republic, Zanzibar, Bali, Mauritius, Cuba, the Maldives, Seychelles, Kenya, and Costa Rica.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Regarding European destinations, the most spectacular increases were recorded by Malta, Croatia, Italy, and Spain with Mallorca, Tenerife, Costa Brava, Costa Blanca, and del Azahar (Valencia).<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybusiness.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Daily Business<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Why has Romanian interest in vacations in Turkey decreased?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Fortuna Business Travel, requests dropped by 45% in early 2016 as tourists shifted toward Europe and exotic locations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which European destinations are seeing the highest growth?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malta, Croatia, Italy, and Spain (including Mallorca and Tenerife) have seen the most significant increases in popularity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What exotic destinations are high-income Romanians choosing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>High-income travelers are opting for locations such as the Dominican Republic, Zanzibar, Bali, Mauritius, the Maldives, and Seychelles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Fortuna Business Travel agency, requests for vacations in Turkey decreased by approximately 45% in the first months of 2016. The new destinations now attracting tourists are Greece, Croatia, Malta, and Spain. About 30% of Romanians with above-average incomes who preferred Turkey have, starting this year, chosen exotic destinations such as the Dominican&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-123499","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\/123499","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=123499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123499"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=123499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}