$780m in tourism revenues last year

Romania’s tourism revenues in foreign currency amounted to $780 million in 2003, 14% more than in 2002, the Tourism minister on Wednesday announced. If calculated in euros, the revenues actually stood still. Romania was visited by 1.1 million foreign tourists in 2003, 10.2% more than in 2002, while the flow of Romanian tourists rose by 16.9% to 4.5 million. The total number of tourists went up 15.5% during the same interval to 5.6 million people, according to the preliminary data of the National Institute for Tourism Research and Development. “I believe we will see at least 10% growth in the number of incoming tourists in 2004, as well,” Miron Mitrea, minister of Transports, Constructions and Tourism said. The mountain resorts to have witnessed the highest take-up rate this season were those in Prahova Valley again. ZF