Messerschmidt said Romanian hotel owners offer no interactive programs to keep customers in restaurants, adding they don’t know how to get German tourists to spend their money in Romania. He also said a German tourist comes to Romania with at least EUR500 in their pocket, but the average amount of pocket money for vacation is of EUR2,000 to EUR3,000.
Messerschmidt said German tourists return home from their vacation to Romania with the bulk of their vacation budget, adding they spend an average EUR300 to EUR400 on food and drinks.
He also said there are no hotels in Romania to offer entertainment programs, while bars offer no special, interactive programs. Messerschmidt added there are no boats or small ship cruises on the sea to carry tourists from one seaside resort to another, but only ski jets which most foreign tourists see as very dangerous. He pointed out Romanian tourists have a bad image in Germany because of thieves, beggars and prostitutes in Romania.
Messerschmidt Reisen brings almost 1,200 German tourists to the Romanian seaside annually. In 2012, almost 207,000 German tourists visited Romania, up 12.1% on the year.
Romania participates in the March 7- March 11 interval in the ITB Berlin, the world’s largest tourism fair by surface area and number of visitors.