Romania was visited in 2016 by 2.46 million foreign tourists.
According to the statistics bureau, 57.6% of the foreign tourist came in Romania for business, congresses, conferences, courses, fairs and exhibitions. Business travelers accounted for 58.5% of the overall spending.
The remainder of 42.4% of foreign tourists came for private trips, mostly vacations (61.4%), shopping, for cultural or sport events, medical treatments, visits at friends or relatives, etc..
More than half of the funds (52.7%) were used for accommodation payments. Food&bar spending accounted for 17% of the total, and tourists used 11.7% of their money for shopping.
Over 51% of the foreign tourists accommodated in Romania resorted to a travel agency, while 30.5% organized the trip by themselves.
Most of the tourists came to Romania by airplane (74.9%), 14.3% used their own car, 9.1% came by bus or coach, while 1.7% used other transport means (train, boats, rented cars, motorcycles).