RRT wants franchised hotel chain

Bucharest-based RR Turism, which specialises in domestic business tourism, will begin developing a hotel chain under a franchise system this year. The first such hotel is Dacia (Bucharest), a greenfield investment of RR Turism slated for dedication in late April. “Dacia Hotel is an over one million-euro investment. We are now in talks for affiliation to a chain of three hotels in Cluj, Bacau and Brasov,” Antoanela Gavrilescu, general manager of the hotel said. Dacia has 40 rooms ranked as two and three stars and will employ 18 people. The core business of the agency is making reservations for corporate business delegations at hotels in Romania. To that end, RR Turism launched a hotel reservation and payment system by cards, called RRT Business Travel Club. “The RRT card is used only in affiliated hotels and is a payment instrument. It is also an instrument for companies to monitor their employees’ spending on accommodations. At the same time, since we negotiate a large number of reservations with hotels, the card can also provide discounts for accommodation tariffs,” Gavrilescu explained. ZF