The number of tourists coming to Sofia during the first four months of 2017 is up by 17.87 percent, Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova declared in parliament.
She added that revenues have gone up by 25 percent. The annual revenues per one hotel bed in Sofia amount to around 6,000 euro. Last year occupancy rates at hotels in the Bulgarian capital city stood at 41 percent.
Hotel prices in Sofia are expected to go up considerably during the first half of 2018 when practically all high-end hotels in the capital city will be catering for the delegations arriving for Bulgaria’s Presidency of the Council of the EU.
Caretaker Minister of Interior Kalin Stoyanov promised an increased police presence at predetermined locations on election day, 9 June, when elections will be held for National Assembly and for European Parliament. The police will be stationed at..
The legendary Orient Express train, running on route Paris-Istanbul, arrives today at the Central Railway Station in the city of Ruse. According to the schedule, the train described by Agatha Christie should arrive from Romania and..
From 4 to 8 June, the Danube town of Silistra will host the 62nd National Conference of Archaeologists in Bulgaria. Papers will be presented on the most significant archaeological investigations carried out in recent years. Scholars from..
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will visit Bulgaria's second-biggest city Plovdiv today . The visit is part of the tours in..
In different cities of the country with military rituals, wreath laying and other events, Bulgarians honoured the memory of the emblematic poet and..
The 13th edition of the Night of the Stars show, organized by the Encho Keryazov Foundation and dedicated to the talented children of Bulgaria, took place..
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