Romania's absurd tourism anthem

The Romanian Tourism Minister Elena Udrea has released a tourism anthem to advertise Romania as a holiday destination. The daily Cotidianul finds the song, which praises Romania as a "land of choice" and cost 10,000 euros, a very bad joke: "What sense does a song make for a sector which really deserves a requiem or a funeral march? Not that Mrs Udrea's predecessors were any better. But whereas the others were at least somewhat more discreet, the current minister shines for her exhibitionistic inefficiency. ... Alright, so tourism has collapsed, nevertheless it has an anthem! The infrastructure is antiquated, access is worse than it was a generation ago, everyone qualified has gone to places where tourists really go, and prices are higher than everywhere else. ... Two numbers for the minister: in 2007 the city of Kraków alone had eight million tourists, and all of Romania had six!"

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