Only 1% Culture Tourism in Bulgaria

News.bg, Jan 09, 2008

Just 1 % of the foreign tourists arrive in Bulgaria with aim only culture tourism. That was announced by the State Agency of Tourism (SAT) chairman Anelia Krushkova.

On a official conference yesterday Krushkova proclaimed the start of project on theme ‘Thracian spirit-excellent Bulgarian tourist destination', whose winner will defend his destination before European Commission.

The competition for tourist destination project is organized by EC. Part in it will take 17 countries. The idea is, after every country chooses its destination, all of the winner-projects to compete with each other for the award ‘Excellent European Destination'.

The project to win the first place has the opportunity to be financed and advertised by EU.

From SAT explained, the project's aim is to popularize the spiritual, not the material from Bulgarian customs and culture, in particular the Thracian inheritance.

With the project's help will be encouraged small, unknown settlements and communities in tourist product development, so to turn their region into popular destination.

As competitors are presented Belogradchik, Blagoevgrad, Nessebar and Kurdjali.