Minister Angelkova has taken part in the inspection of the beach strip in Sunny Beach resort

27 June 2016

Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova has participated today in an inspection of the beach strip of Sunny Beach resort. An inspection of the sea beaches by a team from the Ministry of Tourism started on 21 June and 28 beaches have been inspected so far.

The team has not found any irregularities on the beaches of Sunny Beach – South and Sunny Beach - Central. Both beaches comply with the approved schemes and sufficient free zones are provided to tourists. The south part has 6 lifeguard posts with a total of 12 lifeguards. Additional safety measures have been undertaken on the central beach, where instead of the required 6 posts, there are now 22 posts with 38 lifeguards in accordance with the approved programme for water life saving for the month of June. At the moment the inspection of Sunny Beach – North is under way.

Some of the most common violations established on the inspected 28 beaches are: insufficient number of lifeguards, absence of sign-plates; incomplete equipment of the lifeguard posts; incomplete equipment of the medical posts; occupation of additional commercial area outside the approved schemes etc. The adjacent water area is secured on all inspected beaches; sanitary and hygienic maintenance is ensured; free pedestrian access to the beaches is also ensured. During the inspections, the working teams drew up records of findings. Letters will be sent with deadlines (depending on the different contracts) for correcting the violations. If the same violations are established in a subsequent inspection, the offenders will be sanctioned.

In order to guarantee the tourists’ rights, Minister Angelkova has issued an order for all beaches to be equipped with information boards, on which in both Bulgarian and English the concession holders’ obligations and the tourists’ rights will be described. A special telephone line +359 2 90 46 833 has been launched for tourists to signal of any irregularities, the following e-mail can also be used for this purpose: control@tourism.government.bg

The beach inspection today was also attended by the Deputy Minister Aleksandar Manolov.

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