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State Agency For Tourism Initiates An Advertising Campaign Of Bulgarian Tourism In Russia 14/03/2008
Bulgaria's State Agency for Tourism will promote the country as a tourist destination to Russians. It has launched an advertising campaign, including 30-minute videos, to be broadcast on the Rossiya Channel and on Channel One in the Russian cities of Yekaterininburg, Irkutsk, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Samara, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Kransnodar, Perm, Rostov-na-Don, Omsk - between February 18 and February 29. A second advertising campaign will take place in the same cities between May 5 and May 25. Three shorter videos will also be shown on the NTV and TVC channels in the Moscow region, St.Petersburg, Yekaterininburg, Novosibirsk, Samara and Rostov-na-Don. The State Agency for Tourism also plans similar advertising campaigns on the global channels of CNN, Euronews, and Eurosport.... more

Bulgarian Summer 2008 - 15-20% More Expensive 27/05/2008
Because of the ceaseless increasing of petrol and fuel prices, the tourists' vacations packages are expected to become 15 to 20% more expensive during the present summer season, mainly because of the airplane tickets. That was announced by the Bulgarian Touroperators and Tourist Agencies Association's president Irina Naidenova.   According to Naidenova, the changes will happen in two directions - one of increasing of the tourist package price in common, and the other - revising of the single components of the elements of these packages. This will harm mainly the hotelier services, as the direction will be compressing of the hotel's prices, says Naidenova. Though, if all market subjects play by the rules of business, there will be round 15% increase of the tourist... more