News from the Bulgarian ski and mountain resorts

Solemn ray and Rodopean bagpipes open the winter season in Chepelare The official opening of the new winter season in the mountain resort of Chepelare takes place on the 21st of December in the newly opened Borika hotel. There will be a press conference in the conference hall of the hotel. A solemn ray accompanied by Rodopean bagpipe sounds and a holyday cocktail in Borika restaurant will mark the beginning of the new winter season 2007/08 in Chepelare. The event is organized by...

Borovets Expects to be 100% Booked Borovets mountain resort management expects the occupation of the hotels in the complex to reach 100 per cent in the 2007/2008 winter season. More than 82 per cent of the preliminary bookings in the resort were made by foreign tour-operators, mainly from the UK. Numerous tourists from Russia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Serbia and Macedonia were also expected. Currently, Borovets had a capacity of 5 500 beds and resort management planned to...

The Future of Vitosha The entire lift net on Vitosha will be reconstructed by a company, closely related to Ulen, which maintains the ski zone in Bansko. One lift card will be used for all of the lifts in Vitosha. For the first time tourists and skiers will be able to use the lifts with one card, after the equipment in the mountain is is now managed by one owner – “Vitosha Ski” JSC. Read the whole...

Major Investors to Sponsor Alpine Tourism Legislation Penning a bill on mountain tourism, regulating the sustainable development of Bulgaria's alpine resources will be one of the first initiatives of an association set up by the owners of skiing infrastructure and investors with skiing resort projects. The association includes all companies with major investment projects in Bansko, Borovets, Pamporovo and Vitosha as well as the owners of investment projects in Perelik,...

Feverish preparations for the “Big Air” in Sofia Part of the loading platform for the Snowboard FIS World Cup Big Air Sofia 2007 was discharged yesterday on “Kniaz Aleksander I Batenberg” Square in Sofia. Snowboard World Cup Big Air is the most important snowboard contest in Bulgaria and Sofia host such an event for the first time. The unique facility is 31 m high, 25 m wide and 100 m long and it was transported from Switzerland. It will be mounted till the 19th of December....