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2008/04/03

Rafting season in Bulgaria starts this weekend

Rafting season 2008 will be officially opened on the 5th and 6th of April with attractive demonstrations in the swift current of Struma River in the region of Kresna gorge. The event is organized by four extreme sports clubs “Adventure Net”, “House for Books and Adventures”, “Fast Waters” and “X-Club”.

The beginning of the new rafting season will be on Saturday the 5th of April at 10 a.m. The meeting poit for the teams, journalists and guests is at the first tunnel at the begining of Kresna...

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2008/04/03

Rumen Rashev: Cultural tourism become a national cause

“The Development of the cultural tourism became a national cause” said the mayor of Veliko Tarnovo, Rumen Rashev. The municipality of Veliko Tarnovo hosts the international tourism fair “Cultural tourism” for the fifth time. There are several new tourist attractions in the town. One of them is the new watching platform for the famous audio visual spectacle “Sound and Light” from “Tsarevets” fortress. Airplane tours above the town are the other tourist innovation in Veliko Tarnovo for this...

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2008/04/02

Albena Resort to Invest 7 M EUR in a Golf Course

Albena resort plans to construct its own professional golf course, money.bg informed.
The investment will amount to 7 million EUR, the resort director Krasimir Stanev stated.
The playground is about to appear near Rogachevo village, over surface of 500 decares.
The preliminary design is work of a French architect.
The project will be implemented on three stages. The first stage forsees construction of training golf academy and will be realized in two years.

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2008/04/02

Romanian Tourists to Flood Local Seaside Resorts for Easter

More than 10,000 Romanian tourists are foreseen to arrive in the Bulgarian seaside resorts for the Easter holidays, Standart Daily reported.
Tourism experts expect the Northern neighbors will spend round 1,2 million EUR during their stay in Bulgaria.

The Romanians have already booked most of the hotels in Golden Sands and St. St. Constantine and Elena resorts (North seaside).

The tourists will spend between 30 and 40 EUR per day.

The only thing that may bother the holiday makers is...

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2008/04/02

Boats in Ariana Lake

Boats and water cycles will entertain the citizens and quests of Sofia since the 12th of April. The filling of the artificial lake starts on Saturday.
The students could use the floating attractions each morning from 8 till 10 o’clock for free. An acoustic wall will separate the lake form the traffic of the local boulevards. There will be retro pictures of Sofia city on the wall. Three creches will entertain the youngest children.

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2008/04/02

Third youth theatre festival of laughter in Pazardzhik

Young actors will march in procession on the streets of Pazardjik this evening. That’s how the third youth theatre festival of laughter in Pazardjik will start. The festival “Ocean of love” will be officially opened at 7 PM at the square in front of the Youth centre in Pazardjik. The event gathers about 200 young actors from Sofia, Plovdiv, Kazanluk, Varna, Stara Zagora, Rousse, Tvurditsa, Gorna Oryahovitsa and Pernik. The best performers and theatrical companies will be awarded in different...

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2008/04/01

Bulgaria's Mountain Resort Bansko Boasts Strong Winter Season

More than 600 000 tourists have visited Bulgaria's hotspot mountain resort of Bansko since the start of the winter season, the mayor said.

Britons and Russians account for the bigger part of the tourist flow into the resort, which welcomed for the first time holidaymakers from Greece coming mostly for the weekend, Bansko mayor Alexander Kravarov told Darik radio.

According to him Bansko's skiing conditions in 2008 were better than those during the previous year.

"We are very pride...

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2008/04/01

Bulgarians shift preferences to spa resorts

Middle-aged Bulgarians have embraced the philosophy of healthy living and recreation, increasingly opting for spa-resort vacations, according to the monthly survey of the tourist website travel.bg.

The quality and variety of offered spa services, not prices, are the key decision-making factors for Bulgarians choosing a hotel, according to the research.

The price of 100 leva a day, charged for an overnight stay in a four-star hotel with spa procedures included, is considered a reasonable...

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2008/04/01

The regions with preserved nature are the most attractive tourist destination for the French

The regions with preserved nature are the most attractive tourist destination for the French. They are searching for information on the stand of the Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Water at the “Destination nature” exhibition in Paris.

The Ministry presents Bulgarian national Parks – “Central Balkan”, “Rila” and “Pirin”. Bulgaria is a special guest of the exhibition this year. The State Forest Agency and the State Tourism Agency are participants at the Bulgarian stand in Paris. The...

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2008/03/31

Bulgaria's Coastal Burgas Welcomes First Batch of Tourists for 2008

The airport at the Black sea town of Burgas welcomed on Sunday with an official ceremony the first group of foreign tourists for the new season aboard a low-cost Sterling airlines plane.

The passengers took off from the airport in Copenhagen and after landing in Burgas were transported to the Sunny Beach resort.

The airports in Bulgaria's Black Sea cities of Varna and Burgas processed more than 3,4 million passengers last year, shows data of German firm Fraport, who owns a 35-year...

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