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Hoteliers in Bulgaria’s winter resort of Bansko are to offer significant discounts to attract guests during the Easter holidays, public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television (BNT) said on March 22. In […]
Bulgaria will have a very difficult summer tourism season because of an expected decrease in Russian and Ukrainian tourists, but there was no reason for apocalyptic forecasts, Tourism Minister Nikolina […]
The Bulgarian cabinet has approved BH Air to carry out flights on the Sofia-Kolkata (formerly Calcutta)-Sofia route, a government media statement on February 11 said. The route has been agreed […]
Procedures for issuing tourist visas to nationals of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Georgia will be eased, Bulgaria Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov and Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova […]
With unofficial estimates projecting a halving of the number of Russian and Ukrainian tourists to visit Bulgaria this year, the country is to campaign to promote domestic tourism. Bulgarian Tourism […]
The ski season opens officially on Sofia’s Vitosha mountain on January 2 2015. The opening ceremony is scheduled for 6pm, with night skiing on an illuminated piste on the Vitosha […]
Bulgarian state railways BDZ has included in its new schedule two “fast trains” connecting Sofia and Budapest via Romania. The new schedule took effect on December 14 2014. The train […]
Bulgaria’s three major mountain resorts – Bansko, Borovets and Pamporovo – officially opened the winter ski season on December 13 2014, with the Ministry of Tourism forecasting an increase in […]
Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia has ranked in the top 10 most affordable cities in the world for hotel and Airbnb accommodation, according to Berlin-based travel search website GoEuro.com. Sofia ranked […]
Bulgaria’s winter resorts of Pamporovo, Bansko and Borovets are to officially open their ski seasons on December 13 – although Bansko has sought to steal a march by already opening […]
