The Danube Delta was declared "Travel Destination of the Year" in the Eco-tourist Regions category of the 2024 Travel Destination competition organized on the namesake platform, which was judged by over 200 experts; a sociological survey also contributed to this result, the Institute for Visionary Cities (IOV) said in a release.Following the Danube Delta in the ranking is Tara Dornelor in the northern Carpathians and, third, with a tied score, are Tara Hategului and the Tusnad spa and surroundings region."Hundreds of thousands of public votes on the platform destinatiaanului.ro, a jury made of over 200 experts, and an extensive sociological survey decided this year's ranking in the 12 categories of the competition (...) which included, in a first this year, destinations from the Republic of Moldova; from the neighboring country, the best placed location in the final ranking was the village of Valeni, Cahul district, which won the Republic of Moldova Destination of 2024 special award," the cited source said.The winners of the 2024 Travel Destination competition were announced on last Tuesday evening at a gala hosted by the Romanian Athenaeum, attended by representatives of the Ministries of Economy, Tourism and Entrepreneurship, and Culture, dozens of mayors, county council members and presidents, representatives of tourism and HORECA federations, as well as by many other important players in the industry.Sibiu City is winner of the Grand Prize of the 2024 Romanian Travel Destination.The Travel Destination of the Year is a nationwide competition organized in partnership with the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism, the Alliance for Tourism, the Institute for Visionary Cities, the 'Cred in Romania' Association, the Romanian Hotel Industry Federation (FIHR), the Federation of Romanian Tourism Promotion Associations (FAPT), RoBoost Antreprenoresti, Re-Patriot, Urlaub in Rumanien, the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, and the Romanian Ecotourism Association (AER).
The number of people in Romania at risk of poverty stood at 3.59 million people in 2024, 375,000 fewer than in 2023, representing a 9.4% decrease, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, or INS. Despite the improvement, nearly one in five Romanians was affected by poverty last year. According to INS, 19% […]
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cluj-Napoca carried out multiple searches on Tuesday, July 1, at the Sibiu International Airport and the Sibiu County Council as part of an investigation into suspected fraud involving a EUR 54 million EU-funded infrastructure project. A total of 24 locations were searched across Bucharest, Brașov, and Sibiu county, […]
A Romanian taxi driver who scammed 90-year-old Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka was detained by police on Sunday, June 29, according to media reports. On Friday, June 27, the venerable Nigerian arrived at Bucharest's Otopeni Airport. He got into a taxi and asked to be taken to a hotel downtown. At the destination, the […]
Costin Șerban, a Romanian entrepreneur, is digitalizing the construction sector in the United Kingdom with an ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution developed over 12 years and an investment of GBP 1.6 million (EUR 1.86 million). Șerban’s cloud-based ERP platform is called Abilo, was developed by the Romanian IT company Obi Systems, and is dedicated to […]
Border checks between Bulgaria and Romania have officially been lifted on July 1, as part of the implementation of the Schengen Agreement. The lifting marks the end of the transitional period of heightened control at the internal border, which had remained in place for six months following their accession to the Schengen area by land […]
Remus Vulpescu became CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) on Tuesday, July 1, taking over from Adrian Tănase as the stock exchange grapples with a market dominated by government bonds. Vulpescu, 53, is a graduate in political and legal sciences from the University of Bucharest and holder of an EMBA obtained in 2017. He […]
