Nikolina Angelkova

Over BGN 6.6 billion are the revenues from international tourism in Bulgaria in January-November 2017, according to the latest data of the BNB. Their growth over the same period in 2016 is 9.1%.

Bulgaria is a well-known tourist destination for Greek tourists. From January to November 2017, the number of guests from the southern neighbor who visited our country is over 1 million. Growth over the same period of the previous year is over 8%. The Bulgarians who visited Greece during this period were over 1 250 000, according to NSI data.

Bulgaria registered a growth of 7.3% in the number of foreign tourists for the period January-November 2017 compared to the same period a year earlier, National Statistics Instutute said on 29th of December, quoted by the Bulgarian National Television.  For the 11 months of the year, the country was visited by 8,425,620 foreign tourists.

''We will work to promote the opportunities of Bulgarian tourism in India to increase Indian tourists in Bulgaria.'' This was stated by Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova, who held a working meeting with HE. Ms. Pooja Kapur, Ambassador of India to Bulgaria.

''We can see a very positive change in Bulgaria's tourism, which is undoubtedly due to the work of the Ministry of Tourism.'' This was stated by the Ambassador of Ukraine to Bulgaria HE. Mykola  Baltaži at a working meeting with the Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova, announced from MT.

Preparation of a tourism forum in Beijing under the auspices of the Bulgarian Euro-Presidency to be held in the spring of 2018 and to gather high-ranking representatives of the European Commission and neighboring countries, Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelova and Chinese Ambassador Zhang Haizhou discussed on Friday, reports mediapool.