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Restaurateurs and hoteliers, as well as other businesses, in the Bulgarian mountain resort of town of Bansko face enormous challenges as it awaits the end of its quarantine, currently scheduled […]
Wizz Air is suspending all of its flights to and from Bulgaria’s Varna from March 25 until May 1 2020. The decision to suspend flights is a meas ...
Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry organised three buses to transport UK tourists from the resort town of Bansko, now under two-week quarantine becaus ...
Foreign tourists waiting to leave Bulgaria’s Bansko were awaiting clarity about arrangements on Wednesday morning, after a two-week quarantine w ...
The British embassy in Sofia said on the morning of March 18 that it had been working overnight with the Interior Ministry on the issue of UK nationals in Bansko […]
The Bulgarian mountain resort of Bansko has been placed under strict quarantine, the chief of the country’s national crisis staff against Covid-19, Major-General Ventsislav Mutafchiyski, announced at a 7pm briefing […]
Bulgaria’s Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova said on March 17 that she had banned group tourist excursions, within Bulgaria and to and from the country, until April 13. Addressing a briefing […]
Bansko’s lifts are now closed. It’s happened on probably the best day of the season. But Covid-19 has come to Bansko and finally the decision was made. Now the hazardous […]
The ski areas of Bulgaria’s Pamporovo and Borovets are to be closed as of March 17 as a step against the spread of Covid-19 new coronavirus. Bansko closed its ski […]
By order of Bulgaria’s Prosecutor’s Office and by the decision of the crisis staff in the resort town, the ski area in Bansko has been closed with immediate effect, Bulgarian […]
