“We will have the best December since opening the hotel, we have already 70% rooms taken for the weekends. We will have British, Italian, German, Israeli and American tourists, demand from foreign tourists has gone up and our hotel being in the Old Town of Bucharest helps, as well,” Mihaela Barbu, deputy manager of the hotel told ZF.

A number of 855,000 foreigners stayed in hotels in Bucharest in January-September, compared with 798,000 in the year-ago period, according to the latest National Statistics Institute data.

Almost 80% of the hotel guests are foreigners, both tourists and business people.

(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)