The Ministry of Tourism will be Cooperating with the Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria

The Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova met with the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria (CEIBG), Kiril Domuschiev and with the executive director of the organization Evgenii Ivanov to discuss possibilities for cooperation.

As the biggest employers’ organization in Bulgaria, CEIBG is ready to cooperate with the Ministry of Tourism in introducing concrete measures for increasing the quality of the tourist product and the inflow of tourists.  CEIBG has registered the Union of the Bulgarian Tourist Industry as a non-government organization as early as 2009 in order to foster the unification of the business sector, explained Kiril Domuschiev during the meeting and added that the organization welcomes the initiative of the Ministry of Tourism to consolidate the tourist branch industry. 

CEIBG also supports Minister Angelkova’s idea to initiate amendments to the Law of Tourism as well as changes pertaining to the status of the country’s national resorts. The representatives of the Confederation expressed readiness to help stimulate interior tourism. Domuschiev and Ivanov suggested that Bulgaria introduces one good practice that many European countries have already implemented – namely providing holiday vouchers for the employees in the various enterprises and companies. Minister Angelkova approved of the idea and said a similar measure for stimulating interior tourism could be introduced after it has been discussed with the Minister of Finance.