News November, 2007

2007/11/29

The governmental Agency of Tourism announced that Bulgaria was chosen for a member of the two of the most important committees of the World Tourism Organization for the period 2007 – 2009.

The choise was made during the General Assembly of WTO, which is now taking place in Kartagena, Columbia. 700 participants from the 153 countries, members and 500 associated and affiliated members of the organization. Bulgaria is presented by the head of the Governmental Agency of Tourism Ms Anelia...

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2007/11/28

Bulgaria signed on Tuesday two operational programmes with the EU, under which the country will receive EUR 3,1 Bil. in funding for the 2007-2013 period.
The European Commission approved the transport and environment operational programmes for Bulgaria earlier this month.

The operational programmes involve community support for the whole national territory within the framework of the convergence objective, the EU said in a statement.
The goal of the environment programme is to have 65 new...

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2007/11/28

Wizz Air announced the launch of new flights from the capital Sofia to the coastal town of Varna, becoming the first low-cost airline to operate domestic flights in Bulgaria.
The maiden flight will take off on 12 July 2008 and will be initially operated four times a week.
Regular one-way fares start from EUR 9.99, including all taxes and charges.

Wizz Air would expand its Sofia base by deploying an additional new A320 aircraft starting from July 2008.

This will enable it to add four...

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2007/11/28

Terrachim 97, the local manufacturer of plastic packaging products, said it will invest 20 mln levs in a retail and entertainment complex in Gabrovo, Northern Bulgaria. The mall-type development will deliver 16,000 sq m of built-up area when it opens in '09. The five-storey Terra Center will feature 10,000 sq m of lettable floor area and some office premises.

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2007/11/28

Bulgaria is the land of the probably first letter script culture in the world - the one of Thracian- Besses, dated on XIII Century B.C.
This claims the Orpheus explorer Nikolai Gigov.

Later this script was developed by the two Slav brothers Kiril and Metodi, who created the Cyrillic letters.

Prove for this statement Gigov found in the Roman Amphitheatre in Plovdiv. On the wall he deciphered a wall- writing on ancient language. The whole writing spreads on 5 meters, as between every...

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