“Pro Fundata Fair 2023” is a tourism promotion event, organized, between September 18 and 21, by the business community of Fundata and Şirnea, in partnership with Fundata City Hall and the FIJET Romania Tourism Press Club. This initiative of the Fundata community was also supported by Charlie Ottley, the creator of the well-known travel documentaries. Journalists and travel agents from 20 European countries were participated at the event.
The Fundata Comunity is the community protecting nature and preserving the tradition in this area, so the purpose of this trip was promoting the Fundata area as a destination for nature lovers, a romantic place with traditional food, green area in the summer, snow destination in winter. Fundata was declared “Destination of the year 2023” by the FIJET Romania Tourism Press Club according to a ranking based on the votes of specialized journalists.
Fundata returned this fall to the forefront of Romanian tourism with this event that attracted both travel journalists and travel agents from Romania and abroad. During this trip, Fundata Community and Fijet Romania were organizing the special travel fair at an altitude of more than thousands metres to present tourism offer to Fijet journalists and representatives of travel agencies from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Moldova,Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey.
Fijet members were particularly pleased to see that the central theme throughout the event was focused on sustainability for the future, which is undoubtedly of utmost importance in today’s world. Organizers showed us how important local, regional values are too. Fijet members discovered the flavors of local gastronomy. All the beauty of the province and friendliness is also expressed in project Flavours of Romania.
Fijet members were impressed by the activities of the various Fundata projects, which offer a tasteful combination of traditional, modern lifestyle elements with hospitality and focus on sustainable tourism. The Commune of Fundata, with its three villages, Fundata, Fundătica and Şirnea, have been promoted in a different format, a fair where the stands are replaced by traditional houses, guesthouses, hotels and activities related to active tourism. It was a unique experience for all to attend “Fundata Fair” and to get to know the wild beauties of the Transilvanian mountain and winter sports region, discover the flavors of local gastronomy.
The organizers of this event with a wide international participation aim for Fundata to always be up to the mark and gain greater international visibility.
Special thanks go to Stefan Baciu and his colleagues, for his efforts in presenting “Fundata Fair” to the international FIJET journalists and travel agents. One of the main organizers of the event the Romania’s Travel Journalists & Writers Association, president Sefan Baciu. Stefan Baciu and his team worked incredibly hard with dedication and commitment on building the event making it run so successful.
This is an occassion to give special thanks to the organizers, Liviu Mirea, President of Pro Fundata Community, George Perpelea, General Manager of the Euro Park Hotel and Remus Visan, Manager Millenium Tour with their teams.
During Fijet Pro Fundata Fair 2023 in Romania last week, George Papathanasopoulos (Fijet – Greece, President) presented a black & white photo of his father Dionysios Papathanasopoulos, -first Olympic torch runner for Melbourne Olympics 1956- given to Mayor Marian Florin Patea of Fundata (Carpathia) region, Romania. The photo will be displayed in the local Olympics Games Museum.
It was indeed privilege for Fijet members to visit the region of Fundata in Romania.