Romania participates, for the first time, in the tourism fair in Kazakhstan

KITF, the Tourism Fair in Almaty, Kazakhstan, has reached its 22nd edition and brings together exhibitors from many countries, including the national pavilions of Italy, Croatia, UAE, Maldives, Thailand, etc. and an impressive list of hotels and resorts that come to promote themselves in this Fair.

Pictures from the tourism fair in Kazakhstan

Corina Martin, Secretary General of FPIOR and Honorary Consul of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Romania: “We proposed to start promoting ourselves on an extremely important market of tourists, not addressed by Romania so far, and I thank the Minister of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism, Radu Oprea, as and colleagues from the Tourism Consultative Council, who understood the opportunity and importance of presenting Romanian destinations on the market of Kazakh tourists, at home, through Romania’s participation, for the first time, at this fair. The largest foreign investment in Romania has several hundred Kazakh employees in the refineries of Petromidia Năvodari and Vega, Ploiesti, and they are visited annually by relatives, families, friends, who then return from Romania telling about nature, landscapes, traditions and Romania’s unique tourist attractions – including Dracula’s Castle in Bran, Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Transfăgărășan, Transylvania, the Danube Delta and the multi-ethnic and rich Dobrogea in the coastal area with diversified resorts and Ana Aslan’s fitness therapies – are among favourites.

Pictures from the tourism fair in Kazakhstan

Currently, Constanța Port has become a nodal center of major interest in the movement of goods between the Caucasus basin and Western Europe, which has generated a consistent increase in the volume of business trips between Kazakhstan and Romania, and Kazakh officials and businessmen discover with amazement Romania, a country that has never been promoted in Kazakhstan before, but which they then want to revisit as tourists. I believe it is time to address a niche market and a real opportunity – to attract Kazakh tourists and visitors to holiday destinations and cities in Romania. Businessmen are also tourists – but Kazakhs know nothing about Romania and what makes us unique in the world, as a country.

The destinations Constanța-Mamaia, Eforie, and Borșa, from Maramureș, are present in the Romania Stand. Two reputable hotels in the spa area and two tour operators are also present at the meeting with the Kazakh market. The Federation of Romanian Hospitality Industry Employers (FPIOR) and RESTO Constanța are also here to support the Romanian destinations they represent and promote, these days, at the fair.

Pictures from the tourism fair in Kazakhstan

We have set up meetings with the tour operators that we have brought to Info-tour in Romania in 2021, we will meet again to establish circuits and routes in our destinations and I am glad that we have Mădălina Lupu, Ambassador of Romania, as a special guest at the Romanian stand in Astana. I am convinced that we will return with results that will significantly increase the tourist circulation between the two countries and that will attract, in particular, groups and circuits with Kazakh tourists to many of the Romanian destinations.”