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2010/12/08

Last night the Swedish hotel group Rezidor presented the First Park Inn Hotel in Sofia and Bulgaria. Our team attended the event to bring you detailed report on the services offered in the Park Inn hotel.

The Park Inn hotel, formerly known as the Greenville hotel, hosts 77 rooms and 36 apartments, a restaurant, two bars and two meeting rooms. It has also wellness and sports centre offers an indoor swimming pool, fitness area and treatment rooms.

The hotel will be positioned in the average...

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2010/12/07

The official opening of Bansko ski season will be devoted to a noble cause – helping Bulgarian kinds learn to ski, for a second year in a row.

This year the initiative “Learn to ski” of the Bulgarian Ski federation will gather many ski celebrities in Bansko. The competition will be held on a parallel slalom on Tomba ski slope in Bansko. Some of the participants are:

Peter Popangelov - The most successful Bulgarian alpine skier. During the 37 World Cup races, he ranked among the top...

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2010/12/06

The official opening of the ski season in Pamporovo resort is planned for December 18, and all guests of the resort will be able to use the ski lifts for free.

The hoteliers in Pamporovo, Chepelare and the Smolyan region are expecting 10 - 20% increase in the number of tourists.

The tourism business in the region expected a better skiing season, compared to last year's. The hotels in the region aim to attract more tourists from the neighboring countries and Russia with price discounts and...

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2010/11/24

A Bulgarian-German center was officially opened Monday in the regional, southern city of Smolyan to be used for staff training, mainly for employees working in the tourism sector.

The construction cost is BGN 2.5M. Experts will teach courses such as "Administration and Management," "Hotel, Restaurant Management and Catering," "IT Applications," "Food Technologies," and "Gardening."

The facility includes a dormitory, hotel rooms, practice kitchen, seminar and lecture halls.

There will be...

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2010/11/24

SpaFinder has unveiled the winners of its 2010 Readers' Choice Awards - honouring spa-goers' favourite spas across the globe, along with their top ten picks in 31 unique categories.

In addition to nations traditionally recognized by the Awards, ten new spa markets were added in 2010: Bulgaria, Chile, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, Morocco, Portugal, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. New Category Awards include "Favourite Day Spa," "Best New Getaway Spa," "Favourite Spa...

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2010/11/24

“Ulen” Ltd. will prolong the working ours of the cash desk on the gondola lift in Bansko for the forthcoming winter season 2010/ 2011.

Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday the cash desk will operate until 11.00Pm, to avoid queues in the mornings.

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2010/11/19

The municipal administration organizes a brand new tourism route from the centre of Bourgas, “St. St. Cyril and Methodius” square, through the sea garden, the sea casino to the fore-bridge. Water buses will carry visitors to the st Anastasia island. The buildings in the island will be restored and a guided tour in the museum will be offered. A new modern restaurant will substitute the small snack bar that used to operate on the site.

At the moment the administration prepares the technical...

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2010/11/15

500 thousand Russian tourists are expected to visit Bulgaria in 2011. this was announced by www.tourprom.ru, quoting the Russian prime Minister Vladimir Putin. His prognosis is based on this year's data and the good tourism cooperation.

In 2010 the number of Russian tourists will reach 300 thousand. The Russian Prime minister also commented a 50% increase of the stock exchange between the two countries.

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2010/11/05

Top French alpine skier Luc Alphand will be the one to open the new ski season in the largest Bulgarian mountain resort Bansko.

Alphand is the only person to have won the ski World Cup and the Dakar Rally.

He has several world ski championship medals from the mid 1990s. Alphand made his World Cup skiing debut in 1984. In 1997 he won the World Cup.

After that, he retired only to start a career in car racing. He won the 2006 Dakar Rally, in which he had finished runner-up a year earlier....

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2010/11/05

Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism Ivo Marinov and Gershon Gelman, the chairman of Tel Aviv's Federation of Laborers in Israel discussed the opportunity for Israelis to undergo treatment in Bulgarian spa resorts.

During the meeting, the two officials also discussed the idea for recreational procedures after surgical procedures to be carried out in Bulgarian spa centers.

The first groups from Israel are expected to arrive in Bulgaria in mid-November.

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