<span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ro-RO">The </span>Tempo hotel in Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, received the “best enterprise” award at the Socrates International Awards Gala <span lang="ro-RO">(</span>Oxford<span lang="ro-RO">rd</span>, UK<span lang="ro-RO">)</span>. Opened in 20<span lang="ro-RO">04 the unit is part of a Turkish hotel chain that includes properties in Istanbul and Izmir</span>.<span lang="ro-RO"> Gülen Hashmi, general director of Tempo hotel in Bucharest, said: “this title given to us in Oxford reprezents the crowning of a passion that led to creating this business. Our ideas merged with the tourism potential of Bucharest, a city with a market dinamic on which we have placed our bet in</span> 2000. I can say that the potential of the city inspired us! I am very happy that the success and the standards of our hotel Tempo in Bucharest made us create the hotel chain with the same name in Turkey”.</span></span>

<strong><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ro-RO">DUBAI has office in BUC</span>HAREST</span></span></strong>

<span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dubai Corporation for Tourism &amp; Commerce Marketing (DCTCM) opened a tourism promotion office in Bucharest, as a result of the large number of Romanian guests that have been visiting the Emirate in the last years. <span lang="ro-RO">Over </span>46.700 have chosen this destination in 2015<span lang="ro-RO">. For this year the market research estimates a </span>20% increase in the number of Romanian visitors that will choose <span lang="ro-RO">Dubai as their holiday destination. „After Prague and Warsow, Bucharest becomes the third capital city of a country in the region to have a DTCMC” - said</span><span lang="ro-RO"> Dana Nabeel Abdulla Kamber, Strategic Alliances Manager of Dubai Corporation for Tourism and Commerce Marketing. </span>Every year Dubai receives about 16 million visitors from around the globe. </span></span>

<strong><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Royal Hotel will be 2nd Mercure</span></span></strong>

<span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">This summer the Royal Hotel in Bucharest will be affiliated to the Mercure brand, becoming the second unit in Romania, after Mercure Bucuresti City Center. The contract has been signed and the rebranding will happen at the end of the first semester of 2017, after a complete makeover of the location. </span></span>

<span style="color: #000000;">„<span style="font-size: large;">It will become a truly remarkable 4 stars of the mid-scale class, reflecting the Art Deco touches of Bucharest. Mercure Bucuresti Unirii will have 97 rooms and apartments. In the future we aim to have 8 -10 Mercure hotels in the capital of Romania, as well as in other key cities such as Brasov, Sibiu, Sighisoara, Timisoara, Cluj-Napoca”</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ro-RO"> -</span> said Frank Reul, Area General Manager of Accor for Romania, Macedonia and Bulgaria. </span></span>
<p lang="it-IT"><strong><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">ROMANIA - 8,5% increase in travel</span></span></strong></p>
<span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ro-RO">According to the data of</span> Eurostat<span lang="ro-RO"> (</span>The EU office for Statistics<span lang="ro-RO">), in 2016, the fastest growing markets in what concerns the number of overnights in hotels and other B&amp;B units, are:</span> Bulgaria - 17,9%, Slovakia - 16%, Poland - 11,8%, Cyprus - 10,9% and Romania - 8,5%<span lang="ro-RO">. The only markets that registered significant falls are France (minus 4,6%) and UK (minus 4,5%). Looking at EU overall there has been a 2% raise in 2016, in the number of overnights in hotels and other B&amp;B units, the numbers reaching a record of 2,8 billion nights.</span></span></span>