Romania is rethinking tourism to combat overtourism by redistributing visitors beyond crowded hotspots like Bran Castle. Backed by an EU-funded initiative, the country is promoting sustainable travel, ...

Charming Brașov is painted in terracotta and old cobblestones across a forested slope of the Transylvanian Alps. While it's in the heart of Romania, you'll find it has more of an old-world Germanic ...

In the past decade or so, it's been interesting to watch countries from Europe's Balkan and southeast regions emerge from their complicated pasts and onto the international tourism stage. For some — ...