TUI starts bringing back tourists from France to the sea

The big tour operator TUI Group starts bringing back tourists from France to the Bulgarian Black Sea coast after a nine-year break. This became clear at the meeting of the Minister of Tourism Stela Baltova with Astrid Eilert, product manager at TUI France, in the framework of the international ITB exhibition in Berlin. The company launches direct flights in mid-May from French airports to Burgas. This season we mainly offer Sunny Beach, Astrid Eilert said.

Minister Baltova welcomed TUI for bringing back French tourists to the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. She explained that the ministry had already started work on marketing Bulgaria for 2018 and believed that the concept would be adopted by the end of April.

In general, TUI Group reports rises on all markets for the country in the present bookings, said Detlef Höhne, country manager for Bulgaria at the company. Increases from Germany, Austria and Switzerland account for 35%, 30% from Poland, 40% from the Netherlands, 20% from Russia, 15% for the Scandinavian countries and 15% from Belgium.

In the past year, the concern sent to Bulgaria over 230,000 tourists from all markets. TUI Group works with 1,600 agencies across Europe, serves over 20 million tourists per year. The turnover of the tour operator exceeds EUR 17.2 billion per year.