Six national and ten other regional associations in the field of tourism request the Government of Romania, through an Open Letter, concrete measures to bring Romania back to a state of cleanliness.

The initiative comes as a result of the conference Carpathian Garden: from country branding to the need for destination sustainability, organized on Thursday, June 22, 2023, in Bucharest, by the Romanian Ecotourism Association (AER) and the Romanian Hotel Industry Federation (FIHR) ), in the presence of over 100 participants.

Romanian tourism is building a brand: Carpathian Garden. But the places visited by our tourists, Romanian or foreign, are becoming more and more polluted with waste. What business card does a country have where looking out the window from the connecting train between Otopeni International Airport and Bucharest, the capital of Romania, we see fields full of waste? At the edge of any public parking lot, on the side of a national road in Romania, we see piles of discarded waste. Any river in the country, after passing through a few localities, becomes full of waste. On the outskirts of the towns in Romania, from Bucharest to the mountain villages, we find places where garbage is thrown uncontrollably.