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Many rifle and gun enthusiasts enjoy their passion either by going to shooting ranges or engaging in organised combative events like paintball or simulated wars. It can become a pretty expensive sport the more involved one gets. But this guy showed what someone can achieve with a little ingenuity and a lot of patience.

The tourism sector has emerged as a heavyweight among Greek industries, having withstood the test of time and the storm of the crisis. For this reason, we must protect it as much as possible.

We simply cannot keep making our tourism goals all about breaking records in terms of arrivals and how much they spend. We must have high-quality and profitable tourism.

The tourism sector is showing genuine signs of growth this year that suggest it will be the main driver of the Greek recovery, as it will help state revenues, the private economy, the country's current accounts and employment. The government is for the first time speaking of 30 million arrivals in 2017.

Greece's biggest challenge in tourism this year will be how to best manage an expected record number of arrivals, as the country already receives a tourism inflow that is almost three times its population every year, according to the new head of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE), Yiannis Retsos.

Toys that reflect the economic, cultural and political features of a society and serve as witnesses to history receive a great deal of attention from people of all ages in museums. 

The tourism sector (including conference tourism) accounts for seven out of 10 new jobs created in May, according to the Labor Ministry's Ergani hiring database.

Tourism makes a big contribution toward employment in Greece and this has kept rising over the last 30 years, according to a study by the Institute of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE). It also extends across the country's regions, including lesser visited areas.

The government expects an up to 10% increase in the number of foreign tourists in Bulgaria this summer, Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova told FOCUS Radio's Good Morning Bulgaria.

There is an increase in early booking by tourists from the Netherlands and France.

Greece can only expect a moderate increase in Chinese tourism arrivals this year, less than 10 percent up on last season, according to the General Panhellenic Federation of Tourism Enterprises (GEPOET), which took part in the ITB China 2017 fair earlier this month.

Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova had a working visit wih Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sofia H.E. Detlef Lingemann, reported BNR.

The joint initiatives for enhancing the bilateral tourist flow and options for turning Bulgaria into an all-season destination via diversification of the tourist packages and products were among the subjects tackled.