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2007/11/08

EasyJet Landed in Sofia, Bulgaria

The first plane of “EasyJet”, the leading European budget airline, landed in Sofia, Bulgaria. Traditionally the first passengers were met, according to the Bulgarian customs – with bread and salt. At the same time the first passangers, taking off from Bulgaria to London were happy to try from a large cake in the shape of “EasyJet” Plane.

The largest part of the passengers (62%) took the flight to London to visit friends and families. The survey also shows 14 % were going on vacation and 24 %...

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2007/11/08

Katina Golf Resort Rroject Has Started

Ferry Group starts Katina Golf Resort project which was declared the first official playmate of the European Commission in Bulgaria in the Steady Development project.

Today Ferry Group officially announced the beginning of the project after the company took the construction license few days ago. Now the Spanish investor is in the making of the ground breaking ceremony.

Building the boutique golf village near Katina is a promising initiative considering the fact that the project got the...

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2007/11/07

New Hotels and Biathlon Mark Bulgaria's Chepelare Resort Season Opening

Bulgaria's Chepelare winter resort in the Rhodopi Mountain will open the new winter season with four new hotels with 300 beds and a vacation village of 10 houses.

Subi Madankov, head of the hotel and restaurant owners union in Smolyan, said that with the new lodgings, Chepelare would be able to host 1600 tourists at a time.

In winter season 2007/2008, in Chepelare two centres for biathlon with ski runs of one, two and three km, would be opened, Focus news agency reported.

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2007/11/07

Let's Get Married..on a Boat..on the Danube River

More than 18, 000 tourists, 7 weddings on board and breach on the Russian market is the balance -sheet of the passed season for the boats of ‘Dunav Tours' (Danube Tours), informed money.bg.

‘Dunav Tours' started with 5 lake passenger ships: ‘Ruse', ‘Sofia', ‘Ruse Prestige', ‘Heinrich Heine', ‘Elegant lady' on which boards this year was serviced 18,533 tourists who traveled on a total of 156 lake cruises.

The tourists come from different parts of the world: Germany, Canada, Russia, France,...

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2007/11/07

Golden Treasure Found in Medieval Fortress Markely

By excavation work in medieval fortress Markely near Karnobat (Eastern Bulgaria), archeologists found very valuable golden treasure.
That was announced by the local museum's director Dimcho Momchilov.

The treasury consist of 37 golden coins of three Byzantine emperors, golden ring and five gilt loops. They were found in a clay pot.

Treasures like this are rare for Bulgaria, explained Dr. Dochka Aladjova, science assistant in charge to Archaeological Institute of Bulgarian Science...

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2007/11/06

Crown Agents golf day in Bulgaria

Crown Agents held a charity golf day at St Sofia Golf Club and Spa on October 26 to raise funds to support a school for disadvantaged children.

The day was aimed at supporting the Traditzia Foundation’s continued commitment to the Vassil Levski primary school in the village of Vidrare, municipality of Pravets. The school has 65 disadvantaged children between the ages of seven and 15, who are of Roma origin, from poor families or who have mental and physical disabilities.

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2007/11/06

In Japan 2009 Is Going to Be the Year of Bulgaria

In Japan 2009 is going to pass under the slogan Year of Bulgaria, announces a press release of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the visit of the Bulgarian foreign minister, Mr. Ivaylo Kalfin, in the "country of the rising sun".

The occasion is the 90th anniversary of the establishing of official diplomatic relations between the two countries and the 50th anniversary of the re-establishing of these relations after World War II. A rich cultural program is being discussed for...

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2007/11/06

Danish Hunter Shoots down Bulgaria's Biggest Moufflon

German hunter pays 37,000 Euro for the animal's antlers


A hunter from Denmark got an unforgettable trophy, after shooting down a huge moufflon in a Bulgarian hunting reserve. The moufflon was the largest game bred in this country for the last 20 years. "The animal was shot near Cherni Lom game park," said Yordan Radoslavov, director of the game park. The moufflon was prized with 235 points, which is by only 5 points less than the 1986 national big game record, set at the Voden game reserve....

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2007/11/06

20 mln Euro to be Invested in Varna, Burgas Airports '08

The Bulgarian airports in Varna and Burgas, taken over by Fraport subsidiary Twin Star under a concession arrangement in 2006, will ingest 20 mln euro in investment next year, said Andreas Helfer, executive director of Fraport Twin Star Airport Management. The airport concessionaire plans to purchase new mounted fire equipment, rewire the electricity grids of the two airports and organise staff training courses. The two airports were added to the destinations of 19 new air carriers this past...

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2007/11/05

Romania and Germany Generate Bulk of Tourist Visits to Bulgaria

Romania and Germany generated the biggest number of tourists visit to Bulgaria in January-September 2009, shows national statistical data.

The number of Romanian arrivals jumped 40% year-on-year to 1.3 mln, including 600,000 visits declared as excursion or holiday. Some 650,000 Romanians made a transit trip via Bulgaria en route to their holiday destination in Greece.
Bulgaria's northern neighbor is now its biggest tourist market, surpassing Germany and the UK.
Germany is second with...

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