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Bulgaria expects 5 percent growth in number of foreign tourists this summer

Bulgarian Minister of Tourism Angelkova
Photo: BGNES

In the coming summer season, Bulgaria expects more than 5% growth in the number of foreign tourists in comparison to the summer season of 2017. The rise would strengthen the current trend of development. In the past summer the number of foreign reached 5.3 million people. This was announced by Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova. In the summer of 2018 we will rely mainly on tourists from Germany, Romania, Turkey, Russia, Great Britain, Israel, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, the minister added.



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