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Coronavirus: Bulgaria’s Bansko ski resort placed under quarantine

March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus, tourism

The Bulgarian mountain resort of Bansko has been placed under strict quarantine, the chief of the country’s national crisis staff

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Bulgaria 

Coronavirus: Bulgaria’s Tourism Minister bans tourist excursions

March 17, 2020March 20, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus, tourism

Bulgaria’s Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova said on March 17 that she had banned group tourist excursions, within Bulgaria and to

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Covid-19 pushes Bulgaria’s Bansko onto hazardous slope

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 Lance Nelson new coronavirus, tourism

Bansko’s lifts are now closed. It’s happened on probably the best day of the season. But Covid-19 has come to

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Bulgaria 

Coronavirus: Bulgaria’s Pamporovo and Borovets closing ski areas as of March 17

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus, tourism

The ski areas of Bulgaria’s Pamporovo and Borovets are to be closed as of March 17 as a step against

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Bulgaria 

Coronavirus: Ski area in Bulgaria’s Bansko closed

March 16, 2020March 18, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus, tourism

By order of Bulgaria’s Prosecutor’s Office and by the decision of the crisis staff in the resort town, the ski

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways adds carriages to narrow-gauge train for March 3 holiday

February 21, 2020February 24, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ, tourism

Bulgarian state railways BDZ says that it is adding five additional carriages to the popular narrow-gauge train that runs between

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria earned 3.7B euro from foreign tourism in 2019 – central bank

February 20, 2020February 24, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria’s revenue from foreign tourists added up to 3.7 billion euro in 2019, an increase of 0.4 per cent compared

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria Air signs code share partnership with Qatar Airways

February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria Air has signed a code share partnership with Qatar Airways, the Bulgarian flag carrier said in a media statement.

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Bulgaria 

Foreign tourist visits to Bulgaria in 2019 were slightly up on 2018 – statistics institute

January 28, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

There were 9.3 million foreign tourist visits to Bulgaria in 2019, about 0.4 per cent higher than in 2018, the

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