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Those who hope that after the state of emergency they can go on vacation to the mountains or the sea still have to wait.
Representatives of the largest hotel chains announced Tuesday that they will not receive tourists until authorities approve a set of rules to protect guests, but also their employees. For now, however, in the absence of customers, the fate of more than 400,000 hotel industry employees, who are now unemployed, is being questioned.
More than 50,000 tourism employees on the Romanian coast have been without income for a month and a half.
The work was supposed to start on April 1, but due to the state of emergency, which ended the travel, hotel industry owners did not re-employ them.
Dozens of them protested in Mamaia on Tuesday and demanded clear rules from those responsible for restarting domestic tourism.
Without a set of sanitary regulations for accommodation units, the owners of the most important hotels in Romania announced that they will not receive tourists. Most hotels on the coast, as well as those in the mountains and in the Danube Delta, remain closed.
In addition to the sanitary regulations necessary to open hotels, the Federation of Tourism Employers is requesting financial aid for employees and tax cuts. At least on the coast, accommodation prices should not rise.
Many uncertainties in Băile Felix too. So far, only workers are working on remodeling the pools.
Economy Minister Virgil Popescu told Pro TV News that, at this time, no decision is made regarding the conditions under which hotels can operate.
On the other hand, according to research by one of the largest Romanian travel agencies, 71% of Romanian tourists kept their reservations at the country’s hotels, 15% of them do not know if they will travel, and 14% already has given up on vacation.
