It's been a long time since I've seen beaches and resorts so empty less than two weeks before the first day of cherry blossoms. Hotels open/closed – ready to receive tourists, but without knowing very clearly under what conditions – beaches arranged, but empty and workers preparing the terraces for opening. On the coast , hotels are closely connected to the terraces, and since half of this circle is missing, few people come for "marine sports activities, fishing or hiking".
More than 100 seaside hotels await tourists after June 1, when the terraces open
More than 100 hotels in Romanian Black Sea resorts , representing a quarter of the accommodation capacity of the seaside, have opened or are about to open and are waiting for tourists starting with June 1, when the terraces will also open, according to data from the Mamaia - Constanța Employers' Organization . The association estimates that around 10.000 Romanian tourists will stay on the Romanian seaside in the first week of June . Although they do not yet have a guide of measures approved by the authorities, one is expected this week, the authorities' announcement regarding the opening of terraces starting with June 1 has restarted the engines on the seaside. Employment has resumed in the county where 50.000 people have not received a single leu. Being seasonal employees, six months at work, six months unemployed, those working in tourism have not benefited from technical unemployment. Representatives of the Mamaia-Constanța Employers' Organization (OPMCTA) announced today that over 100 hotels on the seaside have already opened or will open around June 1. Basically, the official opening of the seaside for tourists will be on June 1, although there are also hotels and guesthouses open by the sea that actually received tourists this weekend. They came for recreational purposes - fishing, kiting and for outdoor sports activities. Most of them arrived on the beaches of Mamaia, Vama Veche and in the Danube Delta. "Most of the hotels that are opening also have covered terraces, where meals will be served. Even those without a terrace will be able to receive tourists, because at the beginning of June most stays only include breakfast, which can be served in the room, in a room service or delivery system. In parallel, the terraces of independent restaurants on the seaside will also be open," says Anca Nedea, executive director of OPMCTA.
Even though the over 100 hotels have approximately 35.000 accommodation places, the employers' organization estimates an occupancy rate of 25-30%, which means that 8.500-10.000 tourists will stay in the classified seaside structures in the first week of June. "In the first week of June last year, most of the seaside hotels were open, and the occupancy rate was still 25-30%. However, since we are talking about a number of hotels four times larger than those opening this year on June 1, naturally there were four times more tourists," says Nedea. She expects that in the second week of June the number of seaside tourists will increase, because Pentecost follows on the weekend of June 7-8, when, traditionally, Romanians come on a mini-vacation to the sea. " If until now many lovers of the Romanian seaside have waited to see what happens with the opening of hotels, yesterday's announcement that terraces will reopen on June 1st made many decide to book their vacations at the seaside ," Anca Nedea also said.
