Bulgaria to Get 100 Million EUR Yearly from Business Tourism

News.bg, July 11, 2008

Bulgaria could earn round 100 million USD yearly from congress tourism, the Bulgarian MEP Biliana Raeva considers.
According to Raeva the congress tourism is one of the most successful tourist branches and the country should stake more on this sphere.

A business tourist spends few times more money than the ordinary one.
Around 400, 000 people have visited Bulgaria for business in 2006.

Minimal drop in the amount is marked in 2007, but for the first 5 months of the present year, the branch marks raise of 16,6%.

MEP Biliana Raeva pointed out, the development of business tourism in our country is important, but is connected with serious planning and preparing.

That was declared on a seminar in Varna city on the theme ‘Congress Tourism', attended also by the chairman of State Agency of tourism Anelia Krushkova , representatives of the local authorities and experts over the operative programs of EU.

Concrete opportunities for development of business tourism in Bulgaria, methods of attracting investments in the branch and ways of using the EU structure funds resources will be discussed.