Bulgaria Offers Best-Value Summer Tourism Packages in EU

Bulgaria offers the best prices for vacations in the EU this summer, according to Blagoy Ragin, head of the Bulgarian Association of Restaurant and Hotel Owners.

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The Bulgarian tourist business expects at least 10% more foreign tourists in 2011 compared with 2010, Ragin told the Cross news agency.

The head of the Restaurant and Hotel Owners' Association stressed that Bulgaria's tourist sector is looking forward to the completion of the Trakiya Highway (expected in 2012) connecting Sofia with the southern Black Sea coast.

In his words, the Trakiya Highway will increase substantially the number of tourists from Central European countries such as Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Poland visiting the Bulgarian seaside.

Ragin expressed concern that the citizens of neighboring countries have unfair difficultes to enjoying a Black Sea vacation in Bulgaria. He said that Bulgaria loses 200000 Kosovo tourists per year because of the slow and expensive process for obtaining a Bulgarian tourist visa.

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Bulgarian Beach Resorts Expect Russian Tourists Invasion

A record number of Bulgarian visa applications from Russian citizens will be processed for the summer season 2011, according to information from the Bulgarian Consular Office at the Embassy in Moscow.

The forecast is also for a very early start of the 2011 season - no later than the end of April, the beginning of May.

This is the second year in a row with a sky-rocketing number of Russian applications for Bulgarian tourist visas. Since the beginning of 2011, Bulgaria has logged about 21,000 such applications – which is 50% more than the same period of 2010, and twice as many compared with 2009. The Consular Office in Moscow plans to increase the number of employees processing the documents in order to handle the demand.

Bulgarian hotel owners are also expecting a large influx of Russian tourists ... but say that visa delays are the main hurdle to an even greater expansion of Russian visitors in the Bulgarian tourist market.

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