Romania and Bulgaria are in first and second place in terms of the factor "people's inability to afford a week's annual leave away from home" of Eurostat, BNR reported.
Eurostat data show significant inequalities and imbalances in this indicator among the countries of the European Union.
60 percent of Romanians do not take a vacation because they cannot afford it, in Bulgaria this percentage is 44, and in third place is Hungary with 43 percent.
The values are also relatively high for Spain and Italy, where vacation is a privilege for a third of the population. In France and Germany, due to financial difficulties, 25 and 23 percent of the respondents, respectively, do not rest.
At the other end of the spectrum is Norway, where 8 percent of people are economically prevented from traveling. 84% of Dutch people vacationed at least once in 2022, followed by Luxembourg and Finland.
At the bottom of the ranking are Bulgaria and Romania with 28 percent of people who traveled once in the same year. People from Luxembourg, Belgium, Malta, Cyprus and the Netherlands travel the most abroad, and vice versa - more than 70 percent of Romanians, Greeks and French tourism expenditure was on domestic trips.