{"id":124002,"date":"2015-12-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/pnat-if-the-share-capital-increase-is-approved-over-1000-travel-agencies-will-disappear\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T20:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:49:12","slug":"pnat-if-the-share-capital-increase-is-approved-over-1000-travel-agencies-will-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/pnat-if-the-share-capital-increase-is-approved-over-1000-travel-agencies-will-disappear\/","title":{"rendered":"PNAT: If the share capital increase is approved, over 1,000 travel agencies will disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>Over 1,000 travel agencies will disappear if the proposal by the National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT) is implemented, which requested an increase in the share capital of agencies from 200 RON to 25,000 RON, stated representatives of the National Patronage of Travel Agencies (PNAT).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dragos Radulescu, president of the National Patronage of Travel Agencies (PNAT), stated that if this scenario is put into practice, over 3,000 travel agents will lose their jobs. The activity of travel agencies does not justify such a large share capital, and many started from scratch with investments of 1,000 or 2,000 EUR, becoming successful agencies today. If someone asks small agencies or those just starting out to pay another 25,000 RON, it&#8217;s like signing their bankruptcy, Radulescu specified.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>ANAT requested the National Authority for Tourism (ANT) to introduce new provisions in the legislation through which travel agencies would be obliged to establish a share capital of 25,000 RON.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In Romania, approximately 3,500 travel agencies are licensed, of which only 1,500 are active.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/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 ANAT proposal regarding share capital?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ANAT has requested the National Authority for Tourism to increase the minimum share capital for travel agencies from 200 RON to 25,000 RON.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many travel agencies could disappear according to PNAT?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PNAT representatives estimate that over 1,000 travel agencies could be closed if this measure is implemented.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the estimated impact on the workforce?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that over 3,000 travel agents could lose their jobs following this legislative change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1,000 travel agencies will disappear if the proposal by the National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT) is implemented, which requested an increase in the share capital of agencies from 200 RON to 25,000 RON, stated representatives of the National Patronage of Travel Agencies (PNAT). Dragos Radulescu, president of the National Patronage of Travel Agencies&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-124002","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\/124002","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=124002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124002"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=124002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}