Nikolina Angelkova

Burgas. For this summer season we expect tourism growth of 5%, said Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova, who is in Burgas to attend a round table discussion on a project for 12 wine-culinary destinations, Focus Radio - Burgasreported.

"Regardless of the unusual rainy weather, the data show that our country is still moving within 5% of expected growth. Just for the first 6 months there are over 3.6 million tourists. " This was stated by Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova.

"I hope that in the months of June-September we will have this 5% growth that we are expecting at the moment," said Angelkova.

Sofia. We make a commitment to tighten the requirements for tour operators and agents with respect to insurance limits, for which we are already in contact with the Financial Supervision Commission, Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova told Nova TV.

Varna. In May 2018, Bulgaria was visited by over 560,000 foreign tourists, this is an increase of 15% compared to last year, said Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova, who is participating in a discussion on a project for 7 SPA destinations in Bulgaria, Focus Radio - Varna reports.

We expect this summer to have growth o about 5% compared to last year's visits in June-September and foreign tourists to more than 5.5 million. In the summer of 2017 total foreign tourists reached 5.3 million, and then recorded an increase of 5.7%.

Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelova talked on the phone with Turkey's new Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Ersoy, the press center of the ministry announced. Turkey is in the top 10 in the incoming tourism markets for Bulgaria, Minister Angelkova stressed and congratulated her colleague on taking up the post.

More than 1.1 billion leva are the revenues from international tourism in Bulgaria in the first four months of this year. They grow by nearly 11% compared to January-April a year ago, according to data from the Bulgarian National Bank, quoted by the Ministry of Tourism.

We expect a very good growth for tourists in the summer of 2018, which we can not achieve without the active business partnership. This was announced by Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelova at the opening of the new season in Sunny Beach.

At the moment there is a 5% drop in Russian holiday registrations in Bulgaria compared to the same period last year. This was announced by Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova to journalists before the start of the fifth annual meeting of the National Tourism Board, quoted by Darik.

An increasing share of tourists in Bulgaria are choosing accommodation places offering high quality services. In 2017, the overnight stays in 4 and 5 star hotels were more than 3.7 million, which is 32% more than in 2014. With such growth are also the overnight stays for this period and the revenues from them in 2017 are over BGN 919 million - nearly 49% growth compared to 2014.