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Hyatt Regency hotel to open in Sofia in 2018

June 9, 2016June 13, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, tourism

The first Hyatt-branded hotel in Bulgaria will open in the country’s capital city of Sofia in 2018, following an agreement

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Bulgaria 

Tourism Minister: Bulgarian beaches better than Greece’s

June 6, 2016June 7, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, tourism

Greece has its troubles – economic woes and the refugee crisis among them – and now insult has been added

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Bulgaria 

Museum of the Rose opens in Bulgaria’s Kazanluk

June 5, 2016June 7, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

A Museum of the Rose, reportedly the only one of its kind in the world, opened in the central Bulgarian

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria increases police at Black Sea for summer tourism season

June 2, 2016June 2, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency tourism

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry is deploying an additional 730 police at the Black Sea, who will join police from Varna, Bourgas

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria steps up airport security ahead of summer tourist season

June 1, 2016June 5, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas, Sofia, tourism, Varna

Bulgaria is increasing security at the country’s airports ahead of the summer 2016 tourism season, the Interior Ministry said on

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Bulgaria 

Cruise ship visits to Bulgaria drop after Turkey terrorist attacks

May 6, 2016May 8, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Bourgas, tourism, Turkey

In spite of optimistic forecasts earlier in 2016 that cancellations of cruise ship visits to Turkey because of terrorist attacks

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Getting Bulgarian railway tours on track

May 5, 2016May 10, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer tourism

Much about Bulgarian state railways BDZ seems to stop a bit short of the platform. It is not that BDZ

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria tops Romanian tourists’ preferences

April 30, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania, tourism

More than a million Romanian tourists visited Bulgaria in 2015, making them the most numerous foreigners in the neighbouring country for

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Leisure 

Seven finalists shortlisted for Bulgaria’s new tourism logo

April 15, 2016April 18, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria’s Tourism Ministry said on April 15 that seven finalists have been selected in the open competition to choose a

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