Already planning your winter holidays? Well, if you're choosing Bucharest for your stay in the month of December, we've made a list of events in the city you could try yourself - or offer as gifts to your loved ones. Stay tuned in the following days as we are preparing more goodies to help you plan for the winter season in Romania! Also, check back on this article as we'll be adding more events as they are announced.

The use of renewable energy sources, the increase in energy efficiency and a clean and safe energy infrastructure are all challenges that once accomplished might boost Romanian productivity and thus competitiveness. Romania-insider.com looks at the structural funds for economic competitiveness and at the companies that got them.

Two tourism associations, APDT Brasov and Association Monteoru Renaissance have recently launched the Carpathian Tourism Cluster Romania, a network of regional and national stakeholders in the Romanian tourism industry. The aim of this cluster is to support sustainable tourism development and create additional value for the tourism industry in region of the Carpathian Mountains. Members of the cluster are tourism development associations, NGOs, local and national authorities, tour operators, travel agencies, tourism guides, event agencies, suppliers of the tourism industry and service and consulting companies.

Address: Strada Benjamin Franklin Nr. 14

Phone: +40 (0)741 123 098

Web: www.fourteen.ro

Fourteen is an...

The ice hotel near Balcea Lac in the Carpathian Mountains will be inaugurated on December 24 this year and will be opened four tourists until April 30 next year. The price of a room in the Ice Hotel will be of RON 150/person. This year, 14 rooms made of ice will be available.

The heart of Romania, Sibiu or “Hermannstadt” in German and “Nagyszeben” in Hungarian, is one of the most important Romanian cultural centers. Ranked as “Europe’s 8th most idyllic place to live in”, it was also the “European Capital of Culture” in 2007, alongside with Luxembourg.

Damian Draghici is a Romanian pan flute performer, famous for his triple-tongue staccato technique that allows him to play three times faster than the average pan flutist. He is known worldwide as “The Speed of Light”.

The New York Times has recently featured a travel article about Bucharest, seen through the eyes of a traveler who had been to the city in the early 90s and who now finds a changed Bucharest. The article was included in the section Eurofile and was signed by Alexander Lobrano.

When Danish Ulrik Rasmussen first came to Romania 15 years ago, on a backpacking tour of the region, he knew he wanted to return and live here. Six years later, he did that. In the past, he had been playing football, studying and working in Belgium for the European Parliament. He is now a well known head hunter in Romania, partner with executive search firm Pedersen & Partners. The 15-year path was quite filled with changes.

British rehab clinic Castle Craig Hospital, the largest hospital for the treatment of addictions in the UK is currently looking for a Romanian health care operator partners to open a rehab clinic in Romania, Rupert Wolfe Murray, the company's representative for Romania told Romania-Insider.com. “There is no proper rehab facility in Romania,” says Wolfe Murray.

Already planning your winter holidays? Well, if you're choosing Bucharest for your stay in the month of December, we've made a list of events in the city you could try yourself - or offer as gifts to your loved ones. Stay tuned in the following days as we are preparing more goodies to help you plan for the winter season in Romania! Also, check back on this article as we'll be adding more events as they are announced.

The use of renewable energy sources, the increase in energy efficiency and a clean and safe energy infrastructure are all challenges that once accomplished might boost Romanian productivity and thus competitiveness. Romania-insider.com looks at the structural funds for economic competitiveness and at the companies that got them.

Two tourism associations, APDT Brasov and Association Monteoru Renaissance have recently launched the Carpathian Tourism Cluster Romania, a network of regional and national stakeholders in the Romanian tourism industry. The aim of this cluster is to support sustainable tourism development and create additional value for the tourism industry in region of the Carpathian Mountains. Members of the cluster are tourism development associations, NGOs, local and national authorities, tour operators, travel agencies, tourism guides, event agencies, suppliers of the tourism industry and service and consulting companies.

Address: Strada Benjamin Franklin Nr. 14

Phone: +40 (0)741 123 098

Web: www.fourteen.ro

Fourteen is an...

The ice hotel near Balcea Lac in the Carpathian Mountains will be inaugurated on December 24 this year and will be opened four tourists until April 30 next year. The price of a room in the Ice Hotel will be of RON 150/person. This year, 14 rooms made of ice will be available.

The heart of Romania, Sibiu or “Hermannstadt” in German and “Nagyszeben” in Hungarian, is one of the most important Romanian cultural centers. Ranked as “Europe’s 8th most idyllic place to live in”, it was also the “European Capital of Culture” in 2007, alongside with Luxembourg.

Damian Draghici is a Romanian pan flute performer, famous for his triple-tongue staccato technique that allows him to play three times faster than the average pan flutist. He is known worldwide as “The Speed of Light”.

The New York Times has recently featured a travel article about Bucharest, seen through the eyes of a traveler who had been to the city in the early 90s and who now finds a changed Bucharest. The article was included in the section Eurofile and was signed by Alexander Lobrano.

When Danish Ulrik Rasmussen first came to Romania 15 years ago, on a backpacking tour of the region, he knew he wanted to return and live here. Six years later, he did that. In the past, he had been playing football, studying and working in Belgium for the European Parliament. He is now a well known head hunter in Romania, partner with executive search firm Pedersen & Partners. The 15-year path was quite filled with changes.

British rehab clinic Castle Craig Hospital, the largest hospital for the treatment of addictions in the UK is currently looking for a Romanian health care operator partners to open a rehab clinic in Romania, Rupert Wolfe Murray, the company's representative for Romania told Romania-Insider.com. “There is no proper rehab facility in Romania,” says Wolfe Murray.