Specialised websites top travel agencies in Internet search ranking
When searching "Romania accommodation" on the Internet,
one of the major travel agencies, Eximtur, selling holidays with
accommodation in Romanian pensions or hotels mainly, does not
emerge before the fourth page of Google results.
Google's top ten results include turistinfo.ro, roturism.com,
ecazari.ro, tourismguide.ro, infopensiuni.ro, romaniacazare.ro,
cazari.ro, retouring.ro, viaromania.eu and
romania-turistica.ro.
Presence on the Internet among the top results for accommodation
brings these websites, which provide tourists for free with
databases of pensions, villas and hotels in Romania, several tens
of thousand euros annually. The money comes from the contracts they
seal with pensions or hotels for presence on specialised
accommodation websites.
"The emergence of websites presenting accommodation possibilities
is an adaptation to technology. For some years, people have started
booking hotel or pension rooms over the Internet. Accommodation
websites are easy to find as they are very well optimised after
certain key words such as accommodation," stated Lucian Marinescu,
a senior associate with Trend Hospitality consultancy.