Cluj-Napoca is the Romanian city with the highest average number of cinema admissions per inhabitant – 2.8 admissions/inhabitant, according to an analysis of Laura Bencze, Account Director Retail at CBRE. By comparison, the nationwide average is 0.68, says Romania-Insider.com.
The analysis is based on information from the number of tickets sold in Romania in 2018 according to the Romanian Film Center (CNC) and the population of those cities according to the national statistics institute INS.
Cluj-Napoca is followed in the top by Constanta, Timisoara and Suceava, with the capital Bucharest ranking fifth.
Explaining this ranking, the CBRE director said that Cluj is ranked first because it has four cinemas (two multiplex + two high-street cinemas), while Iasi, which didn’t make it to top five besides being the second most populated city in Romania, has only two (one multiplex + one high-street). Moreover, Laura Bencze said that “the people in Cluj have a long tradition of going to the cinema, something that was true for most big cities in Romania […] but which got lost along the way”.
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