Ministry of Tourism

The data from December 2018 to February 2019 show that we have managed to keep tourism levels of the record last year, Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova said in response to a question by GERB MP Alexander Matsurev on the results of the 2018/2019 winter season and forecast for the summer season, Focus News Agency reports.

The Ministry of Tourism starts a new initiative - "Unexpected vacation". It provides for two paid nights in April and May for tourists to receive a third free of charge from hoteliers.

At the moment, three hotels in Sunny Beach and one in Pomorie have been included in the initiative, the Ministry of Tourism announced.

Nikolina Angelova held a working meeting with Greek Tourism Minister Elena Kuntura, reported NOVA TV. 

Nikolina Angelova held a working meeting with Greece's Minister of Tourism Elena Kuntura, the Bulgarian administration said. They spoke at the 19th World Summit of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), held in Seville, Spain.

Romania is hosting in Bucharest, April 2-3, a conference called "Sustainable Tourism - Common Policies of the EU Member States" as part of its presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2019. The event will be attended by experts from representative European organisations and specialist bodies of the relevant ministries from the member states of the European Union.

On the orders of the Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelova there will be no contract for renting a beach "Lipite".
 
The reason is that, despite the expectation of providing pedestrian access to the strip, this will not happen until the opening of the summer season 2019. According to the Black Sea Coast Planning Act, free pedestrian access is a must-have condition for tourists.

The 12 wine-culinary destinations are digitized and available on the website of the Ministry of Tourism. They have been developed under the project "Share Bulgaria", which is jointly implemented by the Ministry of Tourism and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forests.

A co-operation agreement on tourism in the Altai region is going to be signed. This was stated by Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova during her talks with Pavel Vladimirovich Dityatev - President of the Altai Government and Minister of Economic Development, and Evgenyi Vitalyevich Deshevich, Head of the Tourism and Resort Development Department, announced the Ministry of Tourism.

Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelova opened Bulgaria's national booth at the International Tourism Fair ITB-Berlin 2019.

Our presence at the biggest tourist fair in the world is of great importance for the presentation of Bulgaria as a year-round destination, the Minister said.

The tourist business in Bulgaria relies on bilateral political support from the highest level to attract Russian tourists to Bulgaria. Data from the Ministry of Tourism indicate that early registrations of Russian tourists this year have decreased by 25%.

Last year, 512,000 Russian tourists visited Bulgaria, placing them in sixth place among foreigners.

The Ministry of Tourism has made an initiative to popularize how and where Bulgarianc celebrated the National Day March 3, the ministry press office said.