Romanian Govt May Penalize Owners Of Closed Tourism Facilities

According to Udrea, the ministry is seeking a way to punish the new proprietors of former state-owned tourism facilities who refuse to open their structures to the public. She said the ministry is inspecting the privatization documents of resorts such as Baile Herculane and Borsec.

The tourism minister said one solution would be to charge higher taxes from owners who keep their tourism structures closed, or leave them to decay.

Udrea said it is difficult to find a legal way to determine the structures’ rightful owners to open them to the public. Moreover, in Borsec for instance, many of the villas which used to receive tourists have been reacquired by their former owners on the basis of the law reversing the nationalization implemented by the communist regime.