Also, companies employing public servants could equally be compelled to grant vacation bonuses by means of vacation vouchers, besides the central and local institutions, autonomous regies, companies and national enterprises employing staff based on individual labor contracts.
Vacation vouchers were introduced in 2009 by emergency ordinance for the employees in the public and private sector, leaving it to the employer to decide whether to grant them, depending on their budgets.
Vacation vouchers were eliminated in 2010 amid austerity measures taken due to economic turmoil.
In 2011, around 5.5 million Romanian citizens spent their vacation in the country. (EUR1=RON4.5178)