One of Romania's leading travel destinations - the Danube Delta- Europe's third largest delta, attracts only 70,000 tourists peryear, 14 times fewer than other much smaller European deltas, suchas the French one (the Camargue Delta) and the Italian one (Deltadel Po). This compares with 70,000 tourists coming to the Romanianseacoast in one day in July alone.
Two weeks ago, one of the most luxurious travel complexes in theDanube Delta, Delta Nature Resort, announced it was closing thisyear because of a lack of tourists. Moreover, owners of lodgingfacilities say they are seeking to sell their assets in the area,although there is not much competition in the Danube Delta on thesegment of pensions and of mini-hotels, with there being only 191authorised lodging facilities.
On the other hand, pension owners who have yet to put theirfacilities up for sale or have yet to close them say they aredefaulting on their payments and have their accounts frozen.
"The tourist complex I run ended last year with losses, amid analmost 500,000-RON (125,000-euro) turnover. A mere 23% of the roomswere occupied. Because of the lack of money I couldn't pay debts tothe state so now I have my accounts frozen because of the delayedtax payments," said Traian Apostu.
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