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2010/05/28

No-frills airline Ryaniair will launch flights to Bulgaria but will initially land just in the second city of Plovdiv, said Ivo Marinov, deputy minister of economy, energy and tourism. Ivelina Grozdeva of the Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant Association urged that the carrier should be allowed to also operate flights to Sofia, Bourgas and Varna. The government plans to lower landing fees for Plovdiv Airport for a period of two years to meet a requirement by the Irish company, which is looking for...

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2010/05/27

Bansko resort is nominated for a winter capital of the Balkans. This was announced by Blagoi Ralin, head of the BHRA, yesterday in Bansko. Bansko hosted a meeting of the International and Balkan association of hoteliers and restauranteurs.

The international delegates made a tour to the ski zone and were impressed by the high quality of servicies offered in the resort. The guests promised to support the candidature of Bansko for a winter capital. The official decision of the Balkan alliance...

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2010/05/26

The spring book bazaar opened on 24 may. The start of the event was given by the Association “Bulgarian Book”.

The official opening was held in the National Palace of Culture will exhibit more than 80 publishing companies, which will present new titles and will give the chance to the visitors to meet many authors.

The bazaar will be held on the third floor of the National Palace of Culture on an are of over 600 square metres. All readers will be able to get many discounts and special...

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2010/05/26

10 teams of Students – architects and designers will create the hotel and attraction infrastructure on the island.

The project of an artificial island right in front of the St. St. Constantine and Elene resort is the task of an international architecture student competition, which will take place until the end of the week in the tourism complex.

10 teams of students will work over the project. Their goal is to create a hotel and attraction infrastructure on the future island. They will...

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2010/05/26

Mellow – the first edition of a brand new music festival which will take place on May 27 – 29, 2010 in Sofia. In three days and nights Mellow will blend together the fluids of spring, the beautiful progressive music which had somehow skipped Bulgaria so far, and the positive vibes of all souls hungry for something new.

We’ll have two stages. The first one – Mellow OPEN – is free and will be built in the Borisova Garden. It will start at 6 p.m. and close at 10 p.m., just in time for the...

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2010/05/25

A total of 8-8.5 million tourists will make their vacations in Bulgaria in 2010, and some 6 million are expected to come from abroad.

This means that there will be a 5% increase in the number of foreign tourists year-on-year, according to a forecast of the Institute for Analysis and Estimates in Tourism.

More tourists from Germany, Russia, Central Europe, Romania, Serbia, and Macedonia are expected to visit the Bulgarian Black Sea resorts in the summer of 2010 compared to last...

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2010/05/20

Bulgaria expects 5% increase in the number of tourists traveling in Bulgaria, compared to the last year.

This was announced by the deputy minister of economy, energetics and tourism Ivo Marinov.
He added that a new communication campaign will be launched by the end of June. The main goal of the campaign is to increase the access to information tor the opportunities for traveling around the country. The government plans to invest in online advertisement. By the end of the month the contracts...

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2010/05/18

The fist golf camp of the National Golf Team of Bulgaria for this year began on May 14. The camp was arranged in cooperation with the BGA (PBGA) and Alan Rogut – Golf development Manager in BGA. The coaches of the national selection, which will represent Bulgaria in International amateur golf tournaments – Neal Turley and Nikolay Stanew were quite strict, but pleased that the future of amateur golf is in their hands.

The camp began with a meeting of the players and short briefing of...

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2010/05/18

During the days around the national holiday between 21 and 24 may, the Alpine meeting “Transko Gorge” will be held for the fourth year in a row.

The gorge of the Erma river, also famous as Lomnishko, is located 4 km away from Tran town and is the biggest tourism attraction in the region, one of the100 National Tourism Sites. The rocks are rising at 150 – 200 m height and forms a picturesque canyon, with numerous rock climbing routes. Each year alpinists form all over Bulgaria meet by the...

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2010/05/14

Two thousand museums from 40 European countries will participate in the night of the museums on 15 May, announced by the French Culture institute.

12 Museums will open doors from 6.00PM until midnight in Sofia. The total number of Bulgarian museums which will participate in the event is 42.
The Night of the Museums is an initiative of the ministry of culture and communications of France. It started in 2005 and is slowly turning into an European event.

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