Cica vrem sa dezvoltam turismul si sa atragem cat mai multi vizitatori la Bucuresti, dar culmea: nu exista nici un Birou de Informatii Turistice in Bucuresti! Un scurt articol foarte bun (ca si comentariile postate de cititori). Poate-l citeste si madam Udrea dupa ce termina de crosetat, de dat cu mopul si de pus muraturi... ---------------------------- Vali "Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions are the chief mark of greatness." "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." Aboneaza-te la <mailto:[email protected]> ngo_list: o alternativa moderata (un pic) la [ngolist] Please consider the environment - do you really need to print this email? http://www.bucharestlife.net/2009/08/13/wheres-the-bucharest-tourist-informa tion-office/ Where's the Tourist Information Office? Aug 13th, 2009 by <http://www.bucharestlife.net/about-2/> Craig Turp
We got a phone call yesterday lunchtime from an angry American (we think) who wanted to know what we had against the Tourist Information Office in Bucharest. He was in his room at the Hilton, had a copy of <http://www.inyourpocket.com/romania/city/bucharest.html> Bucharest In Your Pocket, and had been through all 84 pages yet was unable to find the address of the Bucharest Tourist Information Centre on any of them. He said that he had used In Your Pocket guides in a number of cities around Europe and that in every city we printed the address of Tourist Information. He reasoned (and not without a certain logic) that we had either left it out deliberately, or that we had simply left it out through carelessness and that we were therefore not as good as other In Your Pockets (an accusation he made). The real reason that we do not publish the address of the Tourist Information Centre (because there isn't one) never occurred to him. And when we told him as much, he refused to believe us. In the end we told him that if he was so sure there was a Tourist Information Office in Bucharest he should to go and ask the concierge at the Hilton where it was, and then phone us back with the address so we can publish it in the next issue. A day later he has yet to call us back. We will not hold our breath. In a city with as many problems as Bucharest it could be argued that not having a Tourist Information Centre is no great loss, and that the city council is better off spending its money elsewhere. Perhaps. Yet the city council should have nothing to do with the matter. It is the Ministry of Tourism which should be creating a network of Tourist Information Centres around the country. That's the kind of thing we thought Ministries of Tourism did. Not here, at least not in Bucharest. There is one in Brasov, on Piata Sfatului, but that's run by the city council. The Ministry of Tourism is busy spending its money on <http://revistapresei.hotnews.ro/stiri-subiectele_zilei-6046410-evz-elena-ud rea-campioana-contracte-viteza.htm> other things. C 2009 Bucharest Life
