• New lowfare direct airline Oslo-Varna

    New lowfare direct airline Oslo-Varna is launched from 06 May 2006 with Norwegian Air Shuttle

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  • SkyEurope expands

    SkyEurope expands eastwards and enters Bulgaria and Romania

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  • Bulgaria has been included in the destination portfolios of a dozen Irish tour operators!

    Bulgaria has been included in the destination portfolios of a dozen Irish tour operators, said the Bulgarian Tourism Authority. Some 29,000 Irish tourists visited the country in '05, up 100% y/y. Also, the number of the Danish companies selling Bulgaria as a holiday destination has also increased, going from 15 to 17 after the recent tourism bourse in Copenhagen. The number of Danish tourists rose from 53,000 in '04 to 72,000 last year.

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  • British Airways will fly with the Bulgarian air company to London every Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

    Bulgaria's flag carrier has added to its summer schedule regular flights from the Black Sea coast of Varna to a number of European capitals, the city airport announced. Bulgaria Air and Austrian Airlines will jointly service daily flights from Varna to Vienna. British Airways will fly with the Bulgarian air company to London every Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. As of June 6 British Airways plans to add another two flights to its schedule, to be conducted on Mondays and Tuesdays. The Bulgarian flag carrier will fly every Thursday from the Varna airport to Amsterdam (as of May 18), to Madrid (every Friday as of June 2), and Milan (as of July 5). During the summer period Malév Hungarian Airlines will operate flights from Varna to Budapest on every day of the week but Monday.

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  • Bulgarian ski resort Bansko adds 150 accommodation facilities.

    More than 150 new hotels, guest houses and holiday complexes were registered between December 2005 and May 2006 in Bulgarian ski resort town Bansko, in the Pirin mountain. The bed capacity of the resort now stands at 7,000. Over 100 mln euro were invested in construction in Bansko last year, shows an overview of the Center for Economic Development (CED). The CED report describes Bansko as the most rapidly developing Bulgarian ski resort. The number of visitors to the resort increased 20% to 600,000 in 2005, said the report. The main challenge facing Bansko is the shortage of language-skilled staff, said CED.

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