CoR - Romania Tourism

Central

Ministry of Economy, Energy and Business Environment is the main body of public administration in this field. Its main competences are:

Coordination and monitoring of tourism development;
Provides guidance, in collaboration with an Advisory Council, on the national annual programme of tourism and the development of strategies of economic sectors involved in tourism activity; and
Elaboration of the annual programme on marketing and tourism promotion, of the multiannual programme for the development of tourism resorts and of various other tourism products.
Tourism promotion on the domestic and international markets;
Tourism infrastructure;
Provides authorizations for economic operators and licenses for tourism agencies.
accredits/re-accredits national/local centers for tourist information and promotion;
establishes, together with the central and local public administration authorities that have responsibilities in the field, measures to protect areas with historical, architectural or landscape value, measures to enhance tourism, as well as measures to integrate them in the actions of modernizing the localities and related areas

Regional

The Counties are responsible for:

Inventory of the main tourism resources;
Local management of registers of heritage tourism;
Drawing up proposals for tourism development and the underlying annual programme for the development of tourism products;
Participation in approved tourist routes and ski runs;
Contribution to the quality of tourism products;
Monitoring of tourism and facilitating tourism operators to access the tourism resources; and
Organisation of tourist information centres in areas with tourism activity.
To provide financing sources establishing special taxes in accordance with provisions of art. 484 of Law no. 227/2015 for the purpose of tourism promotion and develop.

Local

Local Councils and the General Council of the City of Bucharest have the following competencies:

Local management of registers of heritage tourism;
Drawing up proposals for tourism development and the underlying annual programme for the development of tourism products;

Contribution to the quality of tourism products;
Monitoring of tourism and facilitating tourism operators to access the tourism resources; and

Organisation of tourist information centres in areas with tourism activity.
To provide financing sources establishing special taxes in accordance with provisions of art. 484 of Law no. 227/2015 for the purpose of tourism promotion and develop.

Responsible ministries/bodies

Ministry of Economy, Energy and Business Environment

Sources

Framework Law no. 195/2006 on decentralisation, published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 453 of 25 May 2006, revised.

Government Ordinance No. 58/1998 on the organisation and operation of tourism activity in Romania revised by Government Ordinance no.123/2008, published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, no. 684 of 7 October 2008

Law N°215/2001 of Local Public Administration, published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 204 of 23 April 2001, as subsequently amended; last modified February 2007.

Law no. 315/2004 on regional development in Romania, published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 577 of 29 June 2004, revised.

Law no. 340/2004 on the institution of the prefect, consolidated version published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 225 of 24 March 2008 revised.

Law no. 275 of 23 November 2018 on the approval of the Government Ordinance no. 15/2017 amending and supplementing the Government Ordinance no. 58/1998 regarding the organization and development of tourism activity in Romania

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