Source: Business Review With 2.1 million visitors in 2010, Bucharest rose to the 55th place in a ranking of Euromonitor International regarding the 100 most visited cities in the world by foreign tourists.

Source: Balkans.com Starting January 1st, the hotel tax will drop down to 1% for the whole country, following the new regulation of Fiscal Code which equalizes hotel tax value nationally.(…) Another decision to help extending tourism season at the seaside is to reduce by 50% the tax on buildings and lands located at Black Sea [...]

Source: Balkans.com Felix Tourism is investing €20m in the first five-star spa hotel in Romania, which will be opened at the end of next year, in Baile Felix. The company also owns the four-star International hotel, two three-star properties, Nufarul and Thermal, and four hotels classified at two stars, Mures, Somes, Union and Poienita, in [...]

Source: Agerpres  Elena Udrea, Minister of Regional Development and Tourism (MRDT) declared on Tuesday during the meeting of the Advisory Committee on Tourism that MRDT is discussing with the MF to lower VAT for all  services in tourism to 9%.

Source: NewsIn The National Development Agency in Hungary in cooperation with the Romanian Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism (MDRT) launched on Monday the fifth call for projects within the Programme of Transborder Cooperation Romania-Hungary. The European Funds allocated to this call amount up to €51,398,714. This call for proposals addresses especially investment projects, improving [...]

Source: Agerpres Elena Udrea, the Minister of Rural Development and Tourism, declared during a TV show at B1TV that she intends to set up a “Red Circuit” to comprise “the places where the last great dictator of Eastern Europe lived”.

Source: Agerpres The Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism buys creation and production services for the campaigns promoting the national brand of Romania, the total amount rising to Ron8.6m, excluding VAT. The money will come from non-refunding European Funds through the Regional Operational Programme.