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2007/11/29

The capital city of Bulgaria – Sofia(Sofiya) will celebrate the Christmas Eve with 30 Christmas trees on the streets of the city.
Part of the trees will be decorated with energy-saving lighting bulbs, which do not harm the tree branches.
Over 40 companies will take part in the decoration of the streets for Christmas. This year there will be more Christmas stars, lighting bulbs and decorations to entertain the citizens and to bring joyful Christmas atmpsphere.

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2007/11/29

The marketing strategy of developing Bansko as an all-year destination for tourism was promoted in the frames of the project for steady development and recovery of the culture and history tourism in Bansko. The most ambitious goal of the project is to target Bansko not only on the ski and mountain tourism market, but also to stress on the unique ethnos, culture, traditions, history and architecture of the resort.

The work on the project starts on Dec 01. It will last 12 months and is...

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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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2007/11/27

The most ambitious aim of the project ‘Stabile development for recovery of the all year history and culture tourism in Bansko's municipality' is to be overcome the fetish of Bansko as ski-destination, stated the project's leader Tsveta Dimitrova, cited by Horemag.
The initiative seeks to involve the natural resources and history inheritance with purpose to create 4 season tourism routes.

We believe that in close future the one season image of Bansko will be overcome, an image related to...

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2007/11/27

For the first time in three years Bulgaria enters the Top 10 most desired destinations in Germany. GIATA – Hoteldatenbank Ranking arranged the destinations according to the vacations sold.

Bookings in more than 60 000 hotels and almost 200 000 tourism products sold by 75 of the most popular German tour operators were taken into consideration. This was announced by Manol Dimitrov, head of the tourism information centre of the council of the tourism investors in Frankfurt.

Bulgaria’s success...

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2007/11/27

Second holiday of the pumpkin starts in Sevlievo today and will last until 30th November. Organizers of the event are Sevlievo municipal and the municipal tourism association.
Today exhibitions “Pumpkin Fantasies” for drawings on pumpkin theme and original figures made of pumpkin and “The Best Pumpkin…” will be opened in the foyer of the Home of Culture. Children from kindergartens from the town will perform a funny show called “Pumpkin Show”

The culmination of the second pumpkin holiday...

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