Tourism Investors' Union Advertises Bulgaria in Spain

Novinite.com, May 12, 2008

The Bulgarian Union of Tourism Investors (UTI) starts a massive advertising campaign in Spain, presenting Bulgaria as a tourist destination, its press service announced on Friday.

The UTI is currently presenting Bulgaria in the Spanish capital Madrid during the Day of Europe celebrations, which started on Friday. The Week of Europe there was opened with the Bulgarian exhibitions dedicated to the Cyrillic alphabet.

UTI has also offered a joint initiative to one of the largest Spanish tourism companies HALCON Viajes, which intends to start charter flights to Bulgaria in the coming summer.

Another project advertising Bulgaria in Spain will entail the presentation of the country as a golf destination, and efforts to attract Spanish golf companies as investors, representatives of the Bulgarian Embassy in Spain announced.

About 200 000 Bulgarians live in Spain according to unofficial data but Bulgaria is mainly known to the Spanish public with its folk music, yogurt, and the legendary Barcelona FC player Hristo Stoichkov.