They hope for a boost in tourism from the designation as a tourist zone of national importance in Nagybánya

At Friday’s government meeting, the seat of Máramaros county was declared a tourist zone of national importance by the Romanian government, which also decided to declare eight Transylvanian settlements as resorts of local importance.

Zsolt Pintér, Nagybánya local government representative and Máramaros county president of the Hungarian Democratic Union in Romania (RMDSZ), told MTI that a long-awaited decision has been made, even if it does not solve tourism-related problems overnight. “This is already a framework, from here you can work in this area,” he said.