1) Pension Puiu

1. about the person

-age: 37
-name: Puiu Aura
-origin: Moeciu Valley
-business starting point: she owned the land from her family
-profession before: no profession before (she made this kind of activity since 10 years)
-motivation: she did not have another choise

2. about the facility

-classification: pension, 2 margarets (now “stars”)
-choosing place: owned the land from her family
-number of rooms: 10 rooms
-employees: just family (4 persons), no local people
-seasonality: same price (60 lei this year, last year 120 Lei), no problem with seasonality: the
costs in the winter are higher than in the summer season
-advertisement: no internet promotion because she does not have a computer, mouth-to-mouth
-deposition: the water went to a recipient. The garbage is taken by a professional team once a
week
- change of tourism arrivals : the tourists arrival in summer seasons is better than in the winter
season. In summer season and during the week the pension is 50 % occupied, at weekend 100%
-local authorities: help of local authorities, but she is afraid of too much control

3. about the tourists

-description: Romanian tourists, two foreign groups ( 1 group German,1 group Spanish), the
Romanian tourists are rude
-tourist activities: barbecue, eating outside, enjoy landscape
-specialties of MV: visit Rasnov, beautiful landscape and fresh air

4. about the MV
-concurrence situation: big concurrence
-inhabitants – reaction to tourism: she always has her pension and the local people are very
friendly

5. about the hazards

-experience: no hazards in this area
-insurance: yes (fire)
-protection measures: central heat outside

6. financial crises
-alternative: agriculture
- she is very affected by the crises, this year the business went very badly

2) Pensiunea Olga

1. about the person

-age: 41
-origin: Moeciu Valley
-business starting point: 4 years ago

2. about the facility

-classification: pension
-choosing place: living here since years, also her family
-number of beds: 12 beds
-employees: 3 (just family)
-seasonality: prices at weekend are higher than during the week, problem of seasonality: winter
season is hard, just few tourists coming, heating costs are very high
-advertisement: mouth-to-mouth
-deposition: no special system for the waste water, the garbage is taken by a professional team
once a week
- change of tourism arrivals: 2 years ago there were more tourists, now she is not very often
occupied
- local authorities: don’t like local authorities because her pension is not official

3. about the tourists

-description: some Hungarian, most Romanian, normal people, in summer they stay longer than
just one weekend
-tourist activities: barbecue, relaxing
-specialties of MV: nice landscapes, fresh air, places to make barbecue

4. about the MV
-concurrence situation: high concurrence because of the high number of small pensions
- inhabitants: reaction to tourism: they like tourists because they bring money to Moeciu Valley

5. about the hazards

-experience: no
- perception: sometimes floods but no risk
-insurance: no
-protection measures: -

6. financial crises
-alternative: no other plan
-future: want more beds and better promotion to get more tourists in her pension

3) Pensiunea Ittaka

1. about the person

-age: 45
-origin: Constanta
-business starting point: first she wanted to rent a house for vacation. But later she changed it into
a pension
-profession before: receptionist
-motivation: wanted to have her own business and not to get commanded anymore and be her
own boss

2. about the facility

-classification: pension, 3 margaretes
-choosing place: just by chance
-number of rooms: 8
-employees: only herself
- local people: they are envy because her business runs well
-seasonality: in winter she has got a problem to warm the pension, high season: summer and from
December till February, prices at weekend are higher than during the week
-advertisement: tourism agencies, mouth-to-mouth
-deposition: local authorities collect the garbage once a week, waste water in septic tank
-local authorities: expecting of the local authorities to improve the infrastructure

3. about the tourists

-description: mostly Romanians but problems with the organization of too large groups
-tourist activities: Bran castle, Moeciu Myth, fresh air etc.

4. about the MV
-concurrence situation: has good contact with neighbors in that business
-inhabitants – reaction to tourism: good opinion towards tourism

5. about the hazards

-experience: in 2007 small flood occurred because someone put some wood in a wrong place and
it dammed the river and the area got flooded
-perception: there has been geomorphological studies in this area
-insurance: yes (everything)
-protection measures: permanent surveillance by her

6. financial crises
-future: no plans

4) “Raza Soarelui”

1. about the person

-age: 43
-origin: Bucharest
-business starting point: bought the land and built the house
-profession before: she was chemical teacher and her husbund was mechanical
-motivation: no other way to earn money

2. about the facility

-classification: Pension, 3 margaretes
-choosing place: at new Years Eve she was there and it was beautiful so that’s the reason she
bought the land
-number of beds: 6
-employees: just she and her husband
-local people: some people threat them like outsider, other one help them
-seasonality: no problems, prices depend of how long you stay there
-advertisement: own website and 3 sites that promote them
-deposition: garbage is taken by local authorities, hole for the waste water which is pumped to the
river
-local authorities: no support

3. about the tourists

-description: mostly Romanian tourists (6- 60 years), high social status
-tourist activities: go outside, barbecue, hiking, visit Brasov, special tradition: to bring the sheep
down the hill, which is very interesting to see for the tourists

4. about the MV
-concurrence situation: no special concurrence, pensions help each other if one of them is full
booked
-inhabitants – reaction to tourism: she does not know

5. about the hazards

-experience: no
-insurance: yes (fire)

6. financial crises
-financial crises affected her, less tourists in the last year