The Ministry of Tourism has started broadcasting videos promoting places and tourist sites in Bulgaria that are largely unknown but have great potential for development. The videos are prepared jointly with the Association of Bulgarian Tour Guides. The initiative is the result of a meeting between Minister of Tourism Mariana Nikolova and the tour guides in July. The first of the videos presents the natural beauty of the Eastern Rhodopes - the canyon and the Arda river valley. The videos are in Bulgarian but have English subtitles.
The Yantra River rises in the Balkan Mountains at 1,220 metres above sea level and descends northwards, meandering through picturesque valleys and gorges in central northern Bulgaria, crossing the towns of Gabrovo and Veliko Tarnovo. Shortly before it..
The village of Momchilovtsi, the Rhodopes, Pamporovo and the Smolyan region were present with a pavilion at a tourism exhibition this autumn in Ningbo, China. Speaking to BTA, Momchil Karaivanov, a representative of the Bulgarian-Chinese Society..
Cultural tourism accounts for nearly 20 % of the country’s tourism product, according to data from a survey by the Ministry of Tourism. While Bulgaria's image was previously associated mainly with maritime tourism, which made up 70% of the tourism..
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