Hotel administrators must register with the Integrated Tourist Record System (SIET) within 90 days of the act entering force. The system will yield information on the occupancy rate of a specific accommodation structure, as well as a region or the entire country.
The act’s explanatory note states the system will allow the relevant authorities to quickly punish non-registration as a means of tax evasion, as well as locate known criminals when they sign in to a hotel.
Every tourist will have to fill in a form with their personal identification data, which is then immediately introduced into SIET. Lodging a tourist who does not provide identification documents is prohibited.
The hotel must store a tourist’s check-in and check-out papers for at least three years and make them available, on request, to police, the draft says. The hotel’s owner or administrator is required to notify the police about the arrival of wanted criminals or people known to be drug dealers, prostitutes, pimps etc.
To register with SIET, the hotel’s owner or administrator must file an application with the local tourism authority, along with a copy of the structure’s classification certificate and their ID card.
Elena Udrea, Regional Development and Tourism Minister, said in early January that the tourist record system is undergoing tests and will begin operating the same month. She added that the system will provide the ministry with statistical data, as well as being a tool against tax evasion from unregistered tourism structures.