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Sofia Echo Com, 19.02.2005

BULGARIA enjoyed strong visitor interest at the Destinations Holiday & Travel Show held in London February 3-6, Bulgaria’s Economy Ministry said in a press release. Interest was highest in the offers for sea and skiing vacations, culture tourism, spa, hobby and eco-tourism, and trips by prospective buyers of property in Bulgaria. During Destinations, it became clear that over 30 British tour operators will offer vacations in Bulgaria in 2005, compared to nine in 2004. Bulgaria debuted as a destination in the catalogues of the travel agencies Cosmos, part of the concern Globus Group, and Odyssey Worldwide, part of Travel World Vacations, for the first time in 2005. So far, the leading tour operators Balkan Holidays London, First Choice and Thomas Cook brought the bulk of British tourists to Bulgaria while Thomson, part of TUI UK, and My Travel started to bring tourists to Bulgaria in 2004. British tourists top the list of foreign holidaymakers to Bulgarian ski resorts and rank second after the Germans to the country’s summer resorts. A total of 259 092 British tourists visited Bulgaria in 2004, up 62.6 per cent year on year. The serious interest brought happiness to Deputy Economy Minister Dimitar Hadjinikolov, responsible for tourism, who said in a recent interview, quoted by SeeNews, that Bulgaria expects to earn some $2.5 billion in tourism revenue this year as it hopes to attract more and wealthier foreigners to spend their vacations in its seaside and mountain resorts. Last year’s tourism income is estimated at $2.2 billion and the industry gave more than one billion euro to counterbalance cash outflows from the economy and narrow the country’s current account deficit, Hadjinikolov said. “The number of tourists visiting Bulgaria to spend their vacation is expected to go up between 10 and 12 per cent this year compared to 2004”, he said. Last year, the number of foreign holidaymakers in Bulgaria rose by 13.56 per cent to over four million. All foreign visitors to the country, including business and transit trips, were up by 14.38 per cent to 4.63 million. Tourism is one of the main driving forces for Bulgaria’s economy. It accounts for about 11 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product. Since it is the middle of the winter tourist season, the public seems more interested in other kinds of events than exhibitions and forecasts. Snowboarders displayed extreme leaps in a snowboarding park near the village of Momchilovtsi in Sothern Bulgaria, which opened with a gala show on February 12 as part of a two-day winter festival. A group of US visitors from the Peace Corps took their first snowboarding lessons. The local youth sport club calls snowboarding a way of life. It came up with the idea for the park to attract more tourists. A Briton who bought a house in the village some years ago donated money for the sport facilities. The park has two tows, runs and obstacles to keep snowboarders entertained. People from local club Momchil Adventure say most tourists learned about the park from ads on the web. The club is planning to have the village hotels booked around the year, offering a wide range of extreme and mountain sports, Momchil Adventure co-ordinator Ema Velichkova has said, quoted by the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA). A survival course is one of the latest additions to the club’s list of extreme sports. The courses held high up in the mountain in the spring and summer, resemble scout camps. see source