“The entire hotel market in Bucharest is growing, given the rising number of daily flights on the Otopeni airport,” Daniel Ben Yehuda, chief executive of the five-star hotel said.
One can hardly find vacancies at four and five-star hotels during peak periods, the Sheraton official says, adding he thinks there are not enough hotels in Bucharest. The leisure segment is on the rise, foreign tourists account for 20% of the total number of customers, he said.
The latest statistical data show Bucharest attracted 1.1 million tourists in January-November 2017 and 43% of the total number of foreigners that stayed in an accommodation facility.
Henri Coanda (Otopeni) International Airport, Romania’s biggest, saw traffic of more than 12.8 million passengers in 2017, up 16% on 2016.
Sheraton Hotel had 70% to 80% occupancy last year and is trying to improve on that, its official said.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)