Quality of life

The quality of life in the Bulgarian capital steadily deteriorated, recording a drop for the fifth consecutive year.

This is revealed by the latest Global Liveability Ranking 2015 of The Economist Intelligence Unit, daily Sega informs.

The quarrel between the Turkish president and the main opposition leader over golden toilet seats has plumbed new depths, after Recep Tayyip Erdo?an questioned how his political rival knew about the toilets of the presidential palace. 

According to the new Eurostat flagship publication on the quality of life in Europe, which was released on Monday, Bulgarians had the lowest levels of life satisfaction in the EU.

Visitors staying at a hotel in Bulgaria will be able to connect to its reception desk by dialling '9' via the internal telephone exchange, the Tourism Ministry announced on Monday.

The National Tourism Organization attended the largest tourism exhibition of Latin America in the hopes of tapping in on new tourist markets, according to an Economy, Infrastructure, Shipping and Tourism ministry’ announcement.

Bulgaria's Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has promised a common phone number for all hotel reception desks.

Speaking at a Monday meeting with Hristo Mutafchiev, Chair of the Union of Actors in Bulgaria, and Gergana Passy, former European Affairs Minister, Angelkova made clear that the number would be agreed at a discussion with industry representatives.

The Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) has noted a worrying, downwards trend towards tourism reservations from both Germany and the UK, which made it reevaluate its goal of 25 million arrivals and 14 billion euros in income, as well as any rates of domestic tourism.

On the eve of the International Day of Happiness, which is celebrated on March 20, Eurostat published on Thursday a study showing that Bulgarians have the lowest life satisfaction in the EU.

Respondents from the 28 EU member states were asked to rank their life satisfaction on a scale from 0 ("not satisfied at all") to 10 ("fully satisfied").

On the occasion of the International Day of Happiness on March 20, Eurostat published a selection of subjective indicators on the well-being of people in Europe.

This data on subjective evaluations and perceptions in different domains have been collected for the first time in a comparable way in European official statistics.

Mykonos has achieved the top place amongst “Gay Friendly” tourism destinations  for the first time.

The island is a very lucrative destination for LGBT tourists, something which is marked by the tourism kiosk to be set up this year in Berlin’s tourism expo.