RUSSIAN TOURISTS RUSH TO BULGARIAN WINTER RESORTS
Standart daily, Boriana Dimitrova, 04.11.05
Russians are eager to spend their holidays in Bulgarian winter resorts, it emerged at the international tourism fair in Moscow that is to be officially inaugurated today.
The six Bulgarian agencies that took part in the fair have already sold the packages for the winter holidays.
Last winter about 12 thousand Russian tourist spent their holiday in Bulgaria. This year their number is expected to rise by 40%. The number of holidays-makers from Greece who will prefer to ski in Bulgaria will increase by 5%, according to data from the Tourism Agency before the tourism fair in Thessaloniki opened.
