Ministry of Tourism

The Ministry of Tourism starts the second stage of the "Unexpected Vacation" campaign, which is held under the slogan "One holiday is never enough!".

The government has provided an additional BGN 1 680 000 million to the budget of the Ministry of Tourism for the implementation of the Annual Program for National Tourist Promotion.
 

Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelova met with Albania's Ambassador to Bulgaria Qirjako Kureta and discussed with him the possibilities of expanding the co-operation in the sector, the ministry said.

Hundreds of visitors of the Romanian stand at the Berlin Tourism Fair showed interest in the tourist offers of our countries, in the first day when the event was opened to the public, reads a release of the Ministry of Tourism on Sunday remitted to AGERPRES.

The EU-China Tourism Year was celebrated Friday evening with two video mapping shows, with the imagery projected on the façade of the National Theater House in Bucharest; according to the organizers, the event contributed to the promotion of Bucharest as a tourist destination alongside other European locations.

The popularity of Bulgaria as a destination is constantly increasing and every year it is visited by more and more foreign tourists. This was announced by Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova at a meeting with representatives of the Young Professionals Club and the Bulgarian community in Washington.

Bulgaria's minister of tourism, Nikolina Angelkova, says it is time the EU started regulating online accommodation platforms like Airbnb and Booking.com.

Over 40 per cent of Bulgarian hotels listed in booking.com are not registered with the Ministry of Tourism, Angelkova complained last Wednesday after the ministerial meeting.

Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelova held a working meeting with Garry Cappelli, Minister of Tourism of the Republic of Croatia. The two talked during the summit of tourism ministers of the EU member states "Tourism and Economic Growth" in Sofia, the Ministry of Tourism announced.

Bulgaria is a well-known tourist destination for Greek tourists. From January to November 2017, the number of guests from the southern neighbor who visited our country is over 1 million. Growth over the same period of the previous year is over 8%. The Bulgarians who visited Greece during this period were over 1 250 000, according to NSI data.

Bulgaria registered a growth of 7.3% in the number of foreign tourists for the period January-November 2017 compared to the same period a year earlier, National Statistics Instutute said on 29th of December, quoted by the Bulgarian National Television.  For the 11 months of the year, the country was visited by 8,425,620 foreign tourists.