Tourist arrivals in Romania drop 70 percent in March
Arrivals in tourist accommodation establishments this March took a plunge of 70 percent from the year-ago period to 242,100, the National Institute of Statistics (INS) said on Tuesday.
In February 2020, when the COVID-19 crisis had not yet taken its toll on the industry, the YoY decline in tourist arrivals had been 4.5 percent.
Romanian tourists accounted for 85.9 percent of the total arrivals in tourist accommodation establishments this March, Agerpres reads.
Visitors from Europe accounted for the highest share of foreign tourists’ arrivals in accommodation establishments (76.6 percent of the total foreign tourists) and of these, visitors from EU countries represented 69.1 percent.
Arrivals of foreign tourists registered at Romania’s border checkpoints stood at 409,400 this March, down 50.1 percent YoY.