{"id":124996,"date":"2015-01-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/romanias-promotion-will-no-longer-move-from-ant-to-the-romanian-institute-of-foreign-trade\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:26:55","slug":"romanias-promotion-will-no-longer-move-from-ant-to-the-romanian-institute-of-foreign-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/romanias-promotion-will-no-longer-move-from-ant-to-the-romanian-institute-of-foreign-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania&#8217;s Promotion Will No Longer Move from ANT to the Romanian Institute of Foreign Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Alin Burcea, vice-president of ANAT, stated that tourism employer associations managed to convince the Minister of Economy, Mihai Tudose, to abandon the decision by which Romania&#8217;s promotion was to move from the National Authority for Tourism (ANT) to the newly established Romanian Institute of Foreign Trade.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The ANAT representative specified that the Minister of Economy proposed that the number of tourism promotion offices abroad increase in the coming period, with employer associations set to come up with proposals nominating several markets that need a Romanian representative. &nbsp;Currently, Romania has 11 promotion offices abroad.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Government decided on December 18, 2014, to establish the Romanian Institute of Foreign Trade, which takes over the duties and personnel in the field from the Department of Foreign Trade and International Relations within the Ministry of Economy, but also the tourism promotion activities from ANT. The latter, which handles Romania&#8217;s promotion, was to remain responsible only for the authorization and control of accommodation structures. The measure was stipulated in an emergency ordinance regulating the functioning of the Ministry of Economy, with the functioning of subordinate institutions, including the Romanian Institute of Foreign Trade, to be approved by Government decisions within 60 days.<\/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>Who decided to keep tourism promotion at ANT?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Economy, Mihai Tudose, decided to keep promotion at ANT after being convinced by tourism employer associations (ANAT).<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many Romanian tourism promotion offices are currently abroad?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Romania currently has 11 tourism promotion offices abroad, with plans to increase this number in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the original plan for the Romanian Institute of Foreign Trade?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The original plan was for the Institute to take over tourism promotion from ANT, leaving ANT responsible only for authorization and control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alin Burcea, vice-president of ANAT, stated that tourism employer associations managed to convince the Minister of Economy, Mihai Tudose, to abandon the decision by which Romania&#8217;s promotion was to move from the National Authority for Tourism (ANT) to the newly established Romanian Institute of Foreign Trade. The ANAT representative specified that the Minister of Economy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-124996","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\/124996","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=124996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124996"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=124996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}