{"id":123501,"date":"2016-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/fihr-president-underfunding-results-in-inefficient-promotion\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:35:50","slug":"fihr-president-underfunding-results-in-inefficient-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/fihr-president-underfunding-results-in-inefficient-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"FIHR President: Underfunding results in inefficient promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Romania is a country that lives on domestic tourism, and the next step is building a coherent approach and entering international markets, stated C\u0103lin Ile, director of the Ibis Gara de Nord hotel and president of the Federation of the Hotel Industry in Romania (FIHR). In his opinion, underfunding is reflected in inefficient promotion.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tourism contributes directly less than 2% to the country&#8217;s GDP, unlike Croatia, where it supports the local economy by 18% or 20%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe must change the way tourism is done in this country. The world has changed and new trends are emerging that force us to stop looking at tourism as we did in the &#8217;80s. In the way we work today, we have no results. We are forced to change,\u201d stated the FIHR president.<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafax.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Mediafax<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>What is the main challenge for Romanian tourism according to FIHR?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main challenge is chronic underfunding, which results in inefficient international promotion and a lack of a coherent strategy to attract foreign visitors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does Romania&#8217;s tourism GDP contribution compare to other countries?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Romania&#8217;s tourism contributes less than 2% to its GDP, whereas in countries like Croatia, it accounts for 18% to 20% of the local economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What strategy does the FIHR President suggest for the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President C\u0103lin Ile suggests moving beyond a reliance on domestic tourism by adopting modern trends and building a coherent approach to compete on international markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania is a country that lives on domestic tourism, and the next step is building a coherent approach and entering international markets, stated C\u0103lin Ile, director of the Ibis Gara de Nord hotel and president of the Federation of the Hotel Industry in Romania (FIHR). In his opinion, underfunding is reflected in inefficient promotion. Tourism&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-123501","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\/123501","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=123501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123501"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=123501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}