The Business Tourism, base of the Romanian tourism

Conversation with Paul Marasoiu
   President of Peacock Hotels, manager for Romania, Bulgaria and Moldavia of Golden Tulip Hotels, Inns&Resorts, president of Romanian Convention Bureau
   The housing capacity is growing in Bucharest
   As a manager for Romania, Bulgaria and Moldavia of Golden Tulip Hotels, Inns&Resorts, how do you explain the development of the hotel industry within Romania?
   Besides Golden Tulip and a series of other international hotelier chains already on the Romanian market, other ones intend to appear because obviously, they’ve seen the potential of this country. Talking about the outsiders, we can also refer at the investment component that is interested in the Romanian market like in a big perspective market with a special potential in the assimilation of high investing volumes. Golden Tulip Hotels, Inns&Resorts remarked beside this opportunity, even an obvious need for added housing capacity. The already existing capacity in Romania reported to the country population represents 1.7%, which means a very small percentage if we are referring only at the internal tourism. If we are pretending to be a touristic country and tending to bring in Romania as many foreign tourists as we can, this capacity is relatively reduced. Bucharest had four years ago 2470 rooms and nowadays only 5700. Yet in fact, it is a perceptible growing rhythm and the growing trend will remain further on dynamic, and by the end of the decade we shall count in Bucharest almost 9000 rooms.
   Is there a rule or a trend for some hotels quoted with more than 3 stars? Are there may companies that develop trainings in Romania and do they have certain classification fields on which they are oriented?
   The problem of classifying hotels in Romania is an interesting matter and already debated, because in most of the cases the hotelier property is classified by the founder’s or owner’s self-pride. Many times the hotelier investment in Romania is perceived less than an investment approach that creates a production amid, that takes in consideration all normal principles of the market. Back to the question, I can say that aimed with priority are the 3 an 4 stars hotels, depending on the unreels event’s level. A hotel must respect some measuring marks in order to be a vendible product and serve some of the social and market needs, because a hotel is a place where, in general, people socialize and they are with or without their will, part of a dynamic communication.