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One swallow may not a summer make, but once again mid-April has seen a flight in of the early birds of Bulgaria’s Sunny Beach tourism season, a group of 360 […]
After many snowless weeks, Bulgaria’s major ski resorts welcomed the snowfall that reached the country this past weekend – but even during the days of artificial powder, have been seeing […]
The lack of snow in Bulgaria so far in January 2014 has mixed implications for the country, meaning losses on some fronts but savings on others. Weather forecasters are describing […]
Turn the clock back a decade or two, and every backpacker would be clutching a copy of a Lonely Planet travel guide. From Delhi to Budapest, from Prague to Bangkok, […]
In a fog and largely out of pocket, Bulgarians crowded road and rail routes back to the country’s major cities ahead of the effective start of the 2014 working year. […]
International tourism rose five per cent in the first nine months of 2013 to reach a record 845 million worldwide, according to figures released on December 12 by the UN […]
Bulgaria currently is seeing an increase of about 5.8 per cent in tourists compared to the same period last year and the country’s revenue from tourism has increased by 3.5 […]
With the start of the school year in mid-September ending the summer holiday season for all except those taking advantage of late-season discounts, provisional projections of numbers were coming in […]
As Bulgarian summer holiday resorts begin announcing discount specials with the advent of September, the first assessments of the performance of the tourist industry this season are beginning to come […]
Britain’s foreign and commonwealth office (FCO) issued a travel advisory to British holidaymakers to “take care on balconies in popular holiday hotspots”, after one Briton died and three more have […]
