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Tourism: 54% of Romanians can't afford a week's holiday

Residents of Greece second (49%), Croats 48%

20 July, 13:17
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 20 LUG - In 2019, 54% of Romanian citizens aged 16 or over were unable to afford paying for an annual one-week holiday away from home, the EU statistical office Eurostat said on Monday. Residents of Greece came second, with 49% not being able to take a one-week holiday away from home, followed by Croatia (48%), Cyprus (45%) and Italy (44%), while only 10% of people in Sweden were unable to afford a one-week annual holiday, followed by Denmark and Luxembourg (11%), Finland (12%), Germany and Austria (both 13%), Eurostat said.

At EU level, 29% of European Union's residents were unable to afford paying for an annual one-week holiday away from home in 2019, down from 39% in 2010. Compared with 2010, the percentage of people who were unable to afford a one-week holiday away from home each year declined in particularly in Latvia (-35 pp), Malta (-30 pp), Bulgaria and Poland (both -27 pp) and Estonia (-26 pp), while it increased in Italy and Greece where it increased 4 percentage points (pp) and 3 pp respectively.

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