{"id":123627,"date":"2016-03-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/fptr-sun-highway-works-will-affect-the-number-of-tourists-on-the-coast\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:52:36","slug":"fptr-sun-highway-works-will-affect-the-number-of-tourists-on-the-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/fptr-sun-highway-works-will-affect-the-number-of-tourists-on-the-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"FPTR: Sun Highway works will affect the number of tourists on the coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Representatives of the Federation of Romanian Tourism Employers, FPTR, believe that the number of tourists coming to the seaside this summer will decrease due to repair works to be carried out on a section of the Sun Highway. Weekend tourists will be the most affected, as some will give up going to the seaside when they find that the trip to Mamaia will take 3-4 hours, instead of 2, as they were used to, FPTR estimates.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Of the 1.5 million Romanian tourists who reach the seaside in summer, only 500,000 go through travel agencies, the rest arriving either on their own during the week or on weekends.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On March 23, the National Company of Motorways and National Roads in Romania, CNADNR, announced that it is allocating 10.4 million EUR for the rehabilitation of 40 km of the Sun Highway, work that will be carried out following a tender, the procedure to be completed at the latest in four months, i.e., at the end of July, when traffic is much more intense on the highway.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Drajna-Lehliu section was put into use in 2007, and the lifespan of the existing works was 6 years.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profit.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Profit<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Why is a decrease in the number of tourists on the coast expected?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Due to repair works on the Sun Highway, which will extend travel time from 2 to approximately 4 hours, particularly discouraging weekend tourists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which section of the highway will be rehabilitated?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 40 km section, specifically the Drajna-Lehliu segment, which was opened in 2007 and has exceeded its initial 6-year lifespan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When are the repair works scheduled to take place?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tender process is expected to be completed by late July at the latest, coinciding with the peak traffic period on the highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of the Federation of Romanian Tourism Employers, FPTR, believe that the number of tourists coming to the seaside this summer will decrease due to repair works to be carried out on a section of the Sun Highway. Weekend tourists will be the most affected, as some will give up going to the seaside when&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-123627","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\/123627","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=123627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123627"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=123627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}