Highly discounted travel packages to be displayed at Romanian Tourism Fair 2015

Exhibitors at the Romanian Tourism Fair 2015 (TTR) have prepared travel packages at discounts of up to 40-50 per cent for external destinations and up to 30 per cent for domestic destinations, Romexpo Director General Catalin Trifu told a TTR presentation conference on Tuesday.

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"We are expecting the number of visitors to increase at this spring edition. While in March 2014, the tourism fair was visited by 25,000 people, we are expecting now 30,000 visitors, given that the entrance fee has been cut. Someone up there promised me there will be excellent weather for the fair. Men come to the fair and in two-three hours they get a picture of what can be chosen, then they go home and let the boss decide what is to be bought," says National Association of Travel Agencies of Romania (ANAT) first deputy chairman Alin Burcea.

The 33rd edition of the Romanian Tourism Fair is hosted by the Romexpo Exhibition Halls of Bucharest, March 12-15. Displaying in the event will be 280 exhibitors using 11,700 square metres to this end. Nearly one third of the exhibitors are from abroad, 14 countries in all, including Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Moldova, Poland, Serbia, Turkey and Hungary.

"Romanians currently prefer shorter but more frequent holidays. Bestselling are 5-7-day packages to the detriment of 12-14 day packages. Romanians have understood the need to go on a vacation every three-four months. We hope the spring edition of the next year will be held in late February, so that Romanians may enjoy early booking offerings, which close on March 1. Anyway, it is a big plus seeing how the Romanian seaside travel packages for November and December are sold," said Burcea.

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