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Tourism body meets

Sofia Echo Com, 20.06.2005

BULGARIA has great tourist potential all year round, Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg said in his opening address at the 75th session of the executive council of the World Tourism Organisation (WTO). The two-day meeting was held at the resort of Slunchev Bryag (Sunny Beach) on the Black Sea coast on June 13 and 14. Saxe-Coburg said that over the past four years, the number of foreign tourists visiting Bulgaria had increased by almost 50 per cent. The number of tourists from EU countries had risen by 90 per cent. Tourism accounts for 12 per cent of Bulgaria’s GDP and provides work to hundreds of thousands of people, Saxe-Coburg said. The tourist sector was important for Bulgaria’s accession to the European Union. Culture and Tourism Minister Nina Chilova, who headed the Bulgarian delegation to the forum, emphasised the dynamic development of seaside and skiing tourism in Bulgaria, which she said had given the European Commission reason to describe Bulgaria as the new face on the global tourist market. Chilova cited WTO forecasts according to which in 2020 Bulgaria will be visited by 10 million tourists, which makes it one of the most promising tourist destinations. The WTO executive council was attended by 112 delegations from the 28 WTO member countries, representatives of associate members, of government and non-government organisations and observers, including representatives of the Vatican. Bulgaria has been a member of the WTO since 1976. Although praised by participants in the meeting as a very successful tourist destination, Bulgaria has continued to encounter problems in recent weeks. Seasonal hiring by tourism companies along Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast and plentiful opportunities for seasonal work abroad has prompted an exodus of workers from the inland and starved key sectors of the economy of skilled labour, local industry associations said on June 12. see source