71% of those who have spent the night in Bulgarian hotels since the beginning of the year are Bulgarian citizens, according to the Unified Tourist Information System, which tracks 18,000 sites across the country. There have been over 3.8 million..
There is a drop of almost 70% percent drop in the number of visits by foreign nationals to Bulgaria in August, Bulgarian Statistical Institute data show. Substantially fewer Bulgarians have travelled abroad as well. As the epidemic..
Traffic at Bulgaria’s border check points with Romania in September continues to be heavy at certain times of day. Tourists from Romania choose to spend their holidays on Bulgaria’s northern black Sea coastline because of the fine beaches and the..
The first 166 tourists from Israel have arrived in Varna, BGNES reports. They include representatives of the media in Israel who have come to find out what conditions are like on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. After being resumed, there are..
Cape Kaliakra in the northern portion of Bulgaria’s Black Sea coastline is enjoying a significant amount of interest by tourists this year. The predictions that tourist numbers would be extremely low because of the coronavirus have not been proved..
Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism Mariana Nikolova has announced in Plovdiv that she talked with the Minister of Health Prof. Kostadin Angelov to allow tourism from Turkey to Bulgaria. She expects that by mid-August it will..
Owners of properties and guest houses in the Black Sea town of Nessebar have gone on protest, disagreeing with the designation of the local hotel "Del Mar" to be used for isolating tourists with coronavirus. They protested in front of the District..
The measure for subsidizing charter flights in order to save the summer tourist season in Bulgaria is late, tour operators from Burgas claim. They call for more flexibility in supporting tourism, for subsidizing bus transport and for starting the..
The Future for Tourism Union has asked Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism Mariana Nikolova to extend the deadline for refunding customers for already prepaid services. Before the protest scheduled for July 28, at a meeting with Nikolova,..
Tourists from Moldova, Serbia, North Macedonia, Israel and Kuwait will be able to enter Bulgaria after showing a negative PCR test done not more than 72 hours before their arrival, without the need for a 14-day quarantine. This was reported at a..