With over 2,000 vacant rooms, Goschy is looking at phone antennas for profit

With one in three rooms empty in the 3,500-hotel room empire built by buying several hotels from the state, Josef Goschy, owner of Unita Turism chain, is renting the roofs of the units and other spaces to raise money, while hotel owners of Austria and France participate in travel fairs abroad and launch promotion campaigns to attract clients.

"Last year I made one million euros from renting some hotel spaces, with half of the sum coming from mobile phone companies that placed their antennas on the roofs of hotels," stated Goschy, one of Romania's biggest hotel owners, who has built no hotel from scratch.
Turnover generated by the entire chain reached almost 9.5m euros, down 14% from the previous year, with the average occupancy rate standing at just 32%, according to Goschy.
Eyeing fast gains, businessman Josef Goschy put out for rental a total area of almost 3,600 square metres, in ten hotels of Unita Turism chain. The spaces could bring the businessman annual revenues worth a little above 900,000 euros, in line with ZF calculations.