Last year, the ministry signed six contracts with the German tour operators to promote Romanian tourist destinations in their catalogs.
Sources in the tourism industry said in August TUI and ITS, two of the world’s largest travel companies, intend to stop bringing tourists to Romania starting next year, unhappy with the absence of promotion on the German market and Romania’s foreign profile.
In 2006, TUI took Romanian resorts out of its catalogs and stopped bringing tourists to the country, fed up with the expensive accommodation, noise and untidy streets. The operator was brought back in 2010, after negotiations yielded a new contract with the Tourism Ministry.
ITS has been on the local market for some years and the company expressed its dissatisfaction with the quality of services and prices on the Romanian coast as early as 2009.