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Articles and news from Bulgaria's top ski resorts and ski centres - Bansko, Borovets, Pamporovo, Chepelare, Dobrinishte and etc.

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  • Date: 11 May 2005 Author: Information by www.befsa.com

    An International competition for extreme skiing and snowboarding "The Mad Goat Ride” will take place from 19th till 22nd of February 2004, on the Northern slopes of Todorka peak (2748 m), with a starting point 30 minutes hiking from the top... more

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  • Date: 10 May 2005 Author: Frank Nadler, originally published in Sofia Echo's Culture Shock

    Everybody who has been to Bansko knows why it is among the most popular getaways for Bulgarians - and increasingly for foreigners who live here. So far it is not really involved in international tourism - but that will come. For most visitors... more

  • Date: 10 May 2005 Author: Rich Fromer/ Sofiaecho 09.05.05

    History of Bulgarian Tourism The dramatic growth of tourism in the second half of the 20th Century is one of the most remarkable economic and social phenomena of our time. International tourist arrivals grew from a mere 25 million in 1950 to... more

  • Date: 05 May 2005 Author: http://struma.com

    Bansko records incredibly high season 2004- 2005. 400 000 tourists have visited the resort and this number is almost doubled as it was the previous season. The high tourism flow and the perspectives for the development of the resort were... more

  • Date: 03 May 2005 Author: Sofiaecho, Ivan Vatashov

    TOURISM BAROMETER: Super Borovets approval a step further A LONG-EXPECTED project, dubbed Super Borovets, is on its way to become reality with some expert help. A working group set up by the Cabinet has approved a concept for the... more

  • Investors prefer Kulinoto and Predel than Bansko! The price per decare land now reached 30 000 euro Struma, 26.04.2005 The investor’s interest for building of hotels and equipment for the development of tourism business is now... more

  • Date: 25 April 2005 Author: Dnevnik Daily, Miroslav Ivanov, 25.04.2005

    All of the owners and concessionaires of ski pistes have to transform them according to the regulations of the new legislation for categorization in a period of six months. The legal act is already in Darjaven vestnik. This is the period in... more

  • Date: 22 April 2005 Author: Krasimir Krantov, 168 chasa, March18-24

    A consortium between two huge firms from Austria and Italy, which prefer to stay anonymous for now, will invest over 100 million euro for the construction of a new winter resort, which is supposed to compete with Borovets, Pamporovo and... more

  • Date: 08 April 2005 Author: Capital weekly, Boryana Gencheva, 2-8 April *with excerpts

    The project for the construction of ski zone in the mountain above Bansko two years ago started as a necessity for the town. There were many hotels and restaurants and the lack of enough pistes and lifts was bad for their business. Now Bansko... more