“Demand for domestic vacations is up 55% in January-September. Romanian consumers have started to book [winter] holiday packages in spa towns and mountain resorts early,” Lucia Morariu said.
Eximtur expects revenue to reach EUR47 million in 2016. Its revenue rose by 15% in January-September compared with the year-ago period, Morariu added.
“Despite insolvencies on the market (Genius Travel and Mareea Comtur), our agency has not seen a drop in demand for holiday packages.”
More and more Romanian consumers prefer to buy domestic holiday packages, a trend that became visible this summer, when they chose the Romanian seaside, given the situation in Turkey.
Eurolines owner Dragos Anastasiu, too, says January-September sales were up 13% and insolvencies did to not lead to a decline in demand for his agencies.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)