More than a million tourist have chosen Varna and its area for their vacation since the yea’s beginning until the active summer season’s end. Revenues from their night-stays during the first 7 months of the year exceed BGN 235 mil.
Over 100 000 tourists visited the Rila lakes during the active summer season, the growth being 12%. This was announced by the Minister of Tourism, Nikolina Angelkova, in Sapareva Banya.
The official NSI data for September are awaited but predictions are that for the active summer season alone the number of international tourists will exceed 6 million.
The main challenges facing the tourism sector, both in Europe and in Bulgaria, are maintaining security and stability, economic competitiveness, development of IT technologies, and increasing the demand for new products.
During the past summer season we received some 400 signals about our sea beaches on our dedicated hotline and email we had set up, and we carried out over 200 on-the-spot inspections.
According to Eurostat data, during the first 6 months of 2016, the total number of night-stays in our country (by both foreigners and Bulgarians) was over 8 mil., with the growth vis-à-vis 2015 exceeding 18%.
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