Tourism and Statistics, Inseparable Binominal

摘要

The interest of investors in Romanian tourism is greater and greater, but a huge obstacle in the way of launching the investment projects is the insufficiency of statistics in this field, which hinder a lot the completion of the feasibility studies and of the investment projects. How many foreigners are visiting Romania for business and how many for pleasure? What was the value of the private investments in Poiana Brasov last year or in any other tourist resort in our country? What was the average expense of a foreign tourist in resort X? There is not exact information, only estimations. "Romanian tourism is suffering from an acute lack of statistics, and those which exist are doubtful and are not available on time", and "the investments have been hindered by the fact that we have not had sufficient statistical data. I consider there should exist a department within the Ministry of Tourism which should deal mainly with this problem, declare more and more professionals from Romanian tourism. Until last year, the only existing data regarding the evolution of the Romanian tourism were the ones published by the National Institute of Statistics (NIS). The publishing frequency of these data - every trimester - is too small for the private sector, which needs monthly information. Moreover, the majority of the business people from the industry do not use this information because they do not believe in it. "Even now statistical data are collected, but it would be extremely interesting to check the accuracy of these data through polls, data which is insufficient anyway", thinks the president of the hotel consultancy company Peacock Management Consulting. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle in Romania ... that we need statistics it is obvious, and tourism and statistics are connected and lead to the desired quality information which statistics has used us with.