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2008/02/12

The bed capacity of Bulgarian ski resort Pamporovo has increased from around 2,000 in 2000 to 15,000-20,000 at present.

The municipalities of Smolian and Chepelare each have jurisdiction over a section of the resort and issue building permits for the respective territory.

According to the Smolian municipality, the number of beds on its section of the resort is around 12,000.

The Smolian municipality said it granted eight building permits in 2007 for a total of 2,000 beds.

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2008/02/11

A brand new six pack chairlift will start operating by the end of the season in Pamporovo. It will service two ski slopes and thus the ski zone of the resort is expanding towards Stoikite village. 13 million BGN are invested in the equipment.

Englishmen and Irish are a majour part of the tourists in Pamporovo. They prefer the resort because of the unique mountain climate and relatively light ski slopes, which are suitable for beginners.

The resort also offers incredible terrain for cross...

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2008/01/18

Round 1,500 Russian tourists preferred Pamporovo ski resort for spending their winter vacation.
The Russians are one third from all foreigners in the resort. According to local tour operators, Pamporovo attracts more and more wealthy Russians.

Here is what the Russians share about the Bulgarian ski spot in the Rhodopes:

"I haven't met from a long time such professionalism in the tourism sphere, starting from the driver who brought us here, the tour agent who welcomed us, to the ski...

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2007/12/28

95% of hotel places in Pamporovo resort are taken for the New Year Eve’s Holidays.
After the start of the tourist season, hoteliers register a successful week.

Over 900 people, mainly Englishman and Irish have passed the ski-school training in Pamporovo.

Russians, Germans, Greek and Turkish have also preferred Pamporovo to spend the holidays.

Today the resort also opens a skating rink.

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2007/12/27

A week after the official opening of the season, the skiing conditions in all Bulgarian mountain resorts are good and many combine their Christmas holiday with a swoosh or two down the slopes.

In the resort of Pamporovo the snow cover is 60 centimeters, in Bansko and Borovest it reaches close to 2 meters. All ski runs are open.
Temperatures even at 2,000 meters above sea level range between -2 to -4 C below zero and the weather will remain calm and stable without strong winds.

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2007/12/18

The snow cover in the Rodhopean resorts was 50 sm, on Dec, 15.
There is a 40-sm-snow cover on Rozhen Peak as well.
On 15 Dec, at noon, the meteorology station on the peak showed temperature -12 degrees Celsius.
The ski season in Pamporovo started on Dec, 15.
“Mechi Chal” ski centre in Chepelare started the maintaining of the ski runs. The ski lifts in Chepelare will open on Dec, 19.

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2007/12/11

BGN 340 Million will be invested in the Rhodopes mountain in Bulgaria by 2010, the country’s Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Dimcho Mihalevski said during a conference in Pamporovo, a reporter of FOCUS Radio – Smolyan informed.
According to the information the money would come from EU structure funds, different operative programs and the Road Infrastructure fund.
According to Mihalevski, investments would be made mainly in road building, improving water and sewer...

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2007/12/03

The ski slopes in Pamporovo are tempting the white sports lovers. The ski slopes are excellently maintained and the new lifts will take you to the Snejanka peak in no time. The view from Snejanka will leave you breathless.

Pamporovo offers high standard five stars hotels, which are ready to pamper even princesses.

The panorama windows in Orlovets hotel offer magnificent view towards the folded mountain. Classics and sophisticated style is the trade mark of Grand Hotel “Murgavets”. It is...

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2007/11/16

Ski patrols will be imposed this season at the Pamporovo resort, it turned out at the sitting of the standing municipal committee for disaster management in Smolyan Municipality, a journalist of Radio FOCUS – Smolyan reported. The patrols have been agreed by Smolyan Municipality and Chepelare Municipality, which are in charge of the resort. The patrols will have permanent coordination with the police.

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2007/10/30

Pamporovo AD, the company running the skiing facilities in Bulgaria's eponymous mountain resort, said it will invest 5 mln euro in two new ski runs and a new six-seat lift connecting the Snejanka peak with the Stoikata area.

The new lift will have an hourly capacity of 2,400 skiers and should be operational by the mid-December kick-off of the skiing season.

The two new ski runs will have a combined length of 5 km, bringing the total length of ski runs in the Rhodope mountain resort to 32...

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