“The percentage of foreign tourists in Pamporovo this winter has been negligible but the Bulgarian tourists saved the season,” commented Mariyan Belyakov, director of the resort for Radio Sofia.
“We had no expectations. We saw that Bulgarian tourists had the potential to compensate to some degree for what we missed from foreign markets,” Mariyan Belyakov as Pamporovo is set to close its ski runs on 11 April.
The expectations for the summer season were very optimistic but the third wave of Covid-19 is raising concerns. The hope now is that the EU vaccination passports will improve planning in the tourist industry, Pamporovo’s director said.
The ski season started earlier than usual in Bulgaria this year, thanks to the early snowfall. In Bansko, the ski runs opened to the public early, in the first days of December , and the official start to the season was given a week later . The other..
While Bulgaria is going through yet another political crisis, the sense of impasse is deepening and the division and discontent in society prevail, there is one sector that has managed to break this ominous pattern - tourism . In 2024, Bulgaria not..
The number of Bulgarians who travelled abroad in November this year increased by 11.3 per cent compared with the same month last year, the National Statistical Institute said. 638 600 nationals travelled internationally . Most of them, 193 200,..
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