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Sunny Beach Ate Up 600 M Euros

Standart Daily, Elena Dimitrova, 07.03.2005

Some 40 new hotels are under construction in the Sunny Beach and St. Vlas seaside resorts. Most of them will be completed for the opening of Summer Season 2005, or in a three months time. However, at least ten or so of the hotels under construction are at an initial stage and most probably, will not open doors for the 2005 Summer Season. With the new hotels, the accommodations in Sunny Beach coastal resort are expected to go up by at least 5,000. Over the recent years the accommodations in the resort went up twofold: from 20,000 up to 42,000, according to reports of the Union of Private Owners. According to official data, some 600 million euros have been invested in the resort since 2000. Construction works are in full swing in the costal resorts of Nessebur and Ravda. Tens of family hotels are springing up there. Yet, their capacity is well under the one of the Sunny Beach. Forecasters believe that the biggest Bulgarian resort on the Black Sea is expected to open the oncoming summer season with 150 functioning hotels. For want of free land on the waterfront, the buildings are being constructed to the west, along the road Burgas-Varna. As early as early last summer, the borders between St. Vlas, Sunny Beach, Nessebur and Ravda have been blurred due to the mass construction. However, many of the private owners are not happy with the tens of newly built hotels, springing up like mushrooms on a yearly basis. On the one hand, they create a cutthroat competition, and on the other hand, they drive away solvent tourists. At present, Sunny Beach is the most densely built-up resort on the Bulgarian coastline. Travel agencies have been ringing an alarming bell on more than one occasion that the construction should be curbed, as foreigners hate resorts looking like cities where there are no parks and green lanes. For the time being, the tourists are not on the ebb; on the contrary, those willing to spend their summer holidays in Sunny Beach go up in number. This year, for the first time ever in the history of the resort, tourists will be accommodated here all April long. 10,000 Austrian pensioners are expected to arrive for the low season. The first group of 2,000 holiday-makers will be accommodated here early next month. Though the sites are covered with snow, the construction works are in full swing. see source