Around 7,000 Romanians went on a cruise holiday last year, whileworldwide 17.5 million people worldwide choose to spend theirholidays on cruising ships every year.
"We are investing and as a matter of fact all our rivals areinvesting on the Romanian market. Travel is among the fields withthe highest potential in Romania, even during a crisis, and in 2011we expect it to rise by around 8-9%," says Giovanni Ponticelli, therepresentative for Romania of MSC Cruises.
Taking into account an average price of a cruise of 600-700euros (not including transport from Romania to the boardingharbour), it results that Romanians last year spent over 4m euroson such holidays, according to ZF calculations.
Cruises are gradually starting to no longer be a privilege ofmillionaires or "wealthy" pensioners, after the crisis has forcedoperators to slash prices so as not to lose their clients andmoreover to attract a series of other potential tourists.
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