News March, 2008

2008/03/21

There are more than 600 caves found in the Rodope Mountains and 4 of them are opened for tourists. These are “Snezhanka” cave near Peshtera, “Yagodinska cave”, “Dyavolskoto gurlo” (The Devil’s throat) and “Uhlovitsata” near Mogilitsa village. This was announced by Sergei Genchev, the manager of “Yagodinska cave”. The cave is very interesting tourist destination.

“Yagodinska cave” is located in the gorge of Buinovska River. The cave is 10 km long and 1100 m are opened for visitors. Tourists...

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2008/03/19

Bulgaria's stand in the tourism exhibition in Russia's capital Moscow overshadowed the Turkish and the Greek stands, in the words of the Chair of Bulgarian State Agency for Tourism Aneliya Krushkova, quoted by the Bulgarian National Radio.

Thirty Bulgarian tourist firms are represented at the Inturmarket 2008 exhibition in Moscow.

"Bulgaria's stand is very large, beautiful, and sunny", Krushkova said adding that it had one of the best locations at the fair, close to the entrance of the...

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2008/03/18

Non-EU nationals can already apply for Bulgarian visa through the Internet, Foreign Minister Ivaylo Kalfin announced on Monday.

The service is already operational in the consulate in Moscow, while the consulates in Saint Petersburg, Kiev and Belgrade will start receiving visa applications online within the next couple of months, the ministry said.

There is constant increase in the number of applications for Bulgarian visas and the new Internet system will make the process easier, Kalfin...

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2008/03/17

The expected growth of tourist in Bulgaria in the coming summer season is between 3 and 5 %, compared to the last year season.

This was prognosticated by Rumen Draganov, director of Institute for analysis and value in tourism.

Last year Bulgaria was visited by 7,8 million tourists and excursionists.

The increase in coming holiday makers will be mainly due to Romanian and Greek tourists.

The impression will remain that the number of tourists is insufficient because of the enormous bed...

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2008/03/14

Bulgaria enters the World guide for film destinations in the next edition of the book, shared Tony Reeves, editor of World wide guide to movie locations.

In the last years Bulgaria became place for shooting of many US film productions, but also a place where many world famous stars, Oscar holders came to participate in the movies.

It is foreseen that Bulgaria make contacts with tour operators who will offer local product, explained from the ‘Film Tour' company.

Whole in 1999 the film...

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