Minister Nikolina Angelkova bestows a “Mayor of the Month“ award to Kazanlak’s mayor Galina Stoyanova

12 July 2016
Министър Ангелкова заедно с кмета на Казанлък Галина Стоянова

The Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova bestowed the „Mayor of the Month“ recognition, on the subject matter of Holidays and Festivals, in the “>50 000 Municipalities” category, to Kazanlak’s mayor Galina Stoyanova. The ceremony, which is part of the monthly campaign of the кмета.bg website, was held today (12 July) in the Peroto literary club at NPC (National Palace of Culture).

 Holidays and festivals are exceptionally important to us not only as heritage we need to preserve, but as a way to develop year-round tourism“, Minister Angelkova noted. She emphasized Kazanlak proved this year again that it is one of the country’s festival centres, with traditions in event tourism, having attracted thousands of tourists during the Rose Festival. „To stimulate this type of tourism, the Ministry will set up a registry of festivals, which will be part of the online registry of tourist attractions“, she noted further. Minister Angelkova advised that the in some 10 months the Ministry-created Registry of Online Attractions has registered nearly 4 mil. visits. A peak in the visits was registered during the Easter holidays - 300 000 and around 24 May – 350 000. Once the summer season began, visit incidence also increased substantially, registering a circa 40% growth of visitors during the past two months 40%.

Two other mayors were rewarded during the media’s June campaign. The Byala Slatina mayor Ivo Tsvetkov, who won in the “Municipalities with 20 000 – 50 000 residents" category and the Tutrakan mayor Dimitar Stefanov, winner in the „Municipalities with 20 000 residents.“ The awards were handed by the Deputy Minister of Culture, Boni Petrunova, and Lyudmil Veselinov, member of NPC’s Board of Directors.

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