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BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has been invited by Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to visit Italy December 10, Tanjug has learned from diplomatic sources.

During his official visit to Rome, Serbia's prime minister will also meet with the country's president, Giorgio Napolitano and President of the Senate Pietro Grasso.

Turkey’s trade deficit fell to $6.25 billion in October from $7.43 billion in October 2013, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) revealed on Nov. 28.

Exports rose by 7.3 percent to $12.93 billion and imports fell 1.5 percent to $19.19 billion, the data showed.

In the first 10 months of the year, the trade deficit fell 18.2 percent to $67.61 billion.

Turkish and foreign tourism representatives, banking executives, journalists and academics met yesterday to discuss future tourism trends at the International Resort Tourism Congress and the conference will continue today.

Leading tobacco firm Papastratos on Wednesday announced that a planned investment of 25 million euros in the transformation of the company’s factory into an exporting center is in the works.

Bulgaria's Sofia and Varna will co-host the 2015 CEV Volleyball European Championship with Italy's Milan and Turin, transpired at a meeting in Milan on Wednesday, reports the Gong.bg website.

The two sports halls in Bulgaria, which will host the tournament are Sofa's Arena Armeec and Varna's Palace Of Culture and Sports, which is closed for renovations.

Bulgaria's Tourism Ministry will create an electronic registry of all tourist destinations in the country, said Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova during the opening of the International Meeting Of Touroperators in Plovdiv.

BELGRADE - Minister of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Snezana Bogosavljevic Boskovic will attend the Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Agriculture in Palermo, Italy, on Friday, November 28, the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The Lonely Planet travel guide has listed Serbia as one of its Best in Travel 2015 Top 10 destinations, which have been presented at a ceremony in Milan, the Tourist Organization of Serbia (TOS) said in a release on Thursday.

The TOS showcased Serbia's tourism offer to the reporters and tour operators, along with several other countries in the top 10.

The number of Bulgarians travelling abroad fell by 1.8% year-on-year in October, reaching 300,900, the statistics office said on Thursday.

While trips by Bulgarians to Serbia, Romania, Italy and Austria decreased last month compared to October 2013, trips to France, Germany, the UK, Greece and Turkey picked up, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said in a statement.

Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has expressed hopes that her deputy, Branimir Botev, will step down.

Speaking Thursday in Plovdiv at the opening of the annual international meeting of tour operators, she suggested that Botev had been appointed Deputy Tourism Minister at the insistence of Valeri Simeonov from nationalist formation the Patriotic Front.