Bulgaria Opened New Summer Season, What to Expect?

On May 1, the new summer season kicked off in Bulgaria. What do green certificates and vaccinations mean for hoteliers and tour operators?

What's in store for us in the next few months? Will we be able to rescue this summer season?

" Stanislav Stoyanov, member of the Union of Hoteliers of Golden Sands commented the topics in Our Day talk show.

"Unfortunately, the developments after this epidemic are currently on the negative side. Perhaps the summer-2021 season will be worse than summer-2020. Maybe the measures that were taken too late played a low-down trick."

"This has led to a lot of cancellations, especially for Easter. From tourists of neighboring countries, on whom we rely at critical moments. As well as from the Bulgarian tourists themselves."

"We are in touch with all our colleagues, we literally hope some miracle to happen, because with these belated measures there is no way to organize the charter programs. As we know, major airlines have suspended their charters by the end of June. We can't expect tourists before this period.'

Green certificates

"This is a measure that will be of great help for the sector. The free movement of vaccinated customers will contribute to the development of the tourist market."

"We need to overcome the mental barrier that tourists have due to the stress of the virus itself."

Tourists from Russia

"Unfortunately in the last few years we have started to lose this market due to the mistakes of the Ministry of Tourism. Unfortunately, there was no active effort on the part of the Ministry as regards the Russian market."

"There was an opportunity to use the situation to our advantage when Russia cancelled flights to Turkey. You know that Turkey is one of...