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The Pirin National Park Directorate and the Mountain Rescue Service in Bulgaria’s winter resort Bansko have added additional temporary signs marking the dangerous areas near the ski slopes in the […]
There were more than 9.2 million foreign tourist visits to Bulgaria in 2018, a figure 4.4 per cent higher than in 2017 and a new record, Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova […]
December 2018 maintained the trend of every single month of the year seeing higher numbers of arrivals of visitors to Bulgaria compared with the same month of the previous year, […]
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Tourism said on January 27 that it was in constant touch with mayors and district governors and no tourists were in trouble because of the heavy winter […]
World Snow Day in Bansko comes around every year. And in 2019 it is on January 20, Sunday. Bansko ski resort is celebrating World Snow Day by reducing the daily […]
What a fabulous first few Bansko ski weeks of 2019 we’ve been having. Loads of smiles and as the queues melted away around January 8, the cold came in and […]
There were more than 8.834 million visits by foreign tourists to Bulgaria in January to November 2018, an increase of 4.9 per cent compared with January-November 2017, the Tourism Ministry […]
For the latest consecutive year, police from Greece and Romania have joined their counterparts from Bulgaria to work in mixed teams in the country’s winter mountain resort of Bansko, the […]
Bulgaria’s winter resorts of Bankso and Borovets opened the 2018/19 ski season on December 15, a week after the other major mountain resort, Pamporovo. In Borovets, lift card prices are […]
Bulgaria saw among the largest increases in air travellers in the European Union in 2017, with a total of more than 11 million passengers, an increase of 19 per cent […]
