Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu expressed his dissatisfaction, on Saturday during his visit to the Danube delta, with the fact that hotels and boarding houses in the area do not respect the architecture specific to the area.
Tariceanu, who was in the delta to promote projects of ecological reconstruction and investments in the environment demanded local authorities to support programs for the development of tourism services in the delta, instead of the mass tourism that would affect the environment. The Prime Minister gave the example of tin-roofed villas built along the river when the specifications of the zone demands that their roofs be made of reed.
"I deeply regret to discover that the Danube Delta continues to be a formerly uniquely beautiful area, transformed by the communists in an economic zone. We must decide if we want to protect it or turn it into some kind of chaotic economic area," said the Prime Minister.

The government will contract from the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) a loan of 22.6 million euros for ecological reconstruction projects and for the stimulation of environment investments in the Danube Delta. This sum will add up to the two million euros from this year's budget of the Ministry of the Environment.
The government's program for the promotion of the Danube Delta involves the construction of tourist ports in Tulcea, Murighiol and the village of Crisan through the investment of approximately 7.4 million euros. Later on, such ports will be constructed in Sulina, Sfintu Gheorghe and Maliuc.

Work of the Tulcea tourist port will be complete within 24 months from the start of the project. The port will cover a total surface of 5.1 hectares and will be able to receive up to 72 leisure ships.
Another project the government considers is the construction of a Marina Tulcea leisure port. The project is worth 6.5 million euros and would be complete by the end of the year. The National Tourism Authority also intends to build until 2008 several watchtowers in various spots in the Danube Delta and create a network of tourist information centers besides monasteries.
Other projects under consideration are the ecological reconstruction of abandoned fisheries and the creation of a monitoring center for migrating fish in the village of Isacea.

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