08 Jan 2018
Bulgaria will be represented by 63 athletes in 17 sports at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Yordan Yovchev will bear the Bulgarian national flag in the opening ceremony on Friday. The 39-year-old fourfold world champion gymnast has won four Olympian medals in Sydney and Athens, and the London 2012 Games will be his sixth Olympiad. He will be the oldest male gymnast ever to compete in the Olympics, and also the only male representative of artistic gymnastics in the Bulgarian team this year.
The Bulgarian Olympic Team will consist of nine wrestlers, two weightlifters, a men’s volleyball team, one male and one female tennis
30 Oct 2017
Over 30 travel companies have donated prizes for the Together Forever Big Prize Draw organised by Westoe Travel following the Ariana Grande terror attack.
Based in South Shields, the agency is raising money for the families of its trainee Chloe Rutherford and boyfriend Liam Curry, who died in the attack, in Manchester on May 22.
Travel companies who have given prizes so far include Emirates, which has donated two return UK-Dubai tickets and Balkan Holidays, who has donated a 7 night Summer 2018 package holiday to Bulgaria.
National Holidays is giving away a two-day mystery coach holiday; Superbreak has donated a £100 voucher,
26 Oct 2017
Our new Summer 2018 Main Edition Brochure is now on sale and we’ve packed all this into our brochure just for you...
• The widest choice of holidays to Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro.
• Prices from £199pp - We’ve held our prices on thousands of holidays for next summer.
• A low deposit of £49 per person (Bulgaria)
• 5% Loyalty Discount for repeat customers.
• Flights from 17 UK airports with low flight supplements.
• Early Bookings Discounts - Save up to
27 Jul 2017
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21 Jun 2017
ABTA has today launched it's “Stop Sickness Scams” campaign which calls for urgent action on fake holiday sickness claims, which are costing the wider travel industry tens of millions of pounds.
The campaign calls on the new Government and Justice Minister, David Lidington MP, to urgently crack down on fake holiday sickness claims which are being encouraged by the aggressive marketing of Claims Management Companies, and warns holidaymakers about the consequences of making a false claim.
Mark Tanzer, ABTA Chief Executive said "This issue affects the whole industry. Even if you are not directly affected, fake claims
19 May 2017
Breaking down in tears on live TV as he apologised to his country for not taking them to victory, Bulgaria's Eurovision entry for 2017, Kristian Kostov should be nothing but proud of his remarkable achievement of finishing 2nd at this year's contest and recording Bulgaria's highest ever finish in the process.
Following on from Eurovision 2016 held in Stockholm last year, where Bulgaria enjoyed their previous best ever finish of 4th place by Poli Genova, 17 year old Kostov had a lot of pressure on his shoulders as the bookies considered his song "Beautiful Mess" a serious contender early on, backing him as second
16 Mar 2017
Since the fall of communism in 1989, tourism in Bulgaria has continued to grow with over 10 million annual visitors to the country in 2011 alone. The number of UK holidaymakers arriving in Bulgaria also increased during 2012 by 4.5% due to the incredible value for money offered in the Bulgarian resorts during harsh economic times for the average UK tourist.
As a significant contributor to Bulgaria's economy, new types of tourism have developed over recent years including cultural, architectural and historic tours, eco-tourism and adventure tours, opening the doors for a new range of experiences for visitors to the country.
The main
26 Jan 2017
Balkan Holidays are pleased to announce the release of our new Winter 2017/18 1st Edition brochure packed with a choice of over 50 hotels and apartments in the countries of Bulgaria, Slovenia and Romania this Wednesday, 1st February 2017. Looked at what we’ve packed inside it...
• A huge selection of great value skiing and boarding holidays from £244pp.
• Low Deposit – A low deposit of £70pp is available for a limited period.
• Free Child Places & Great Discounts for Children.
• Departures from 8 UK airports – Bristol, East Midlands, Gatwick, Heathrow, Manchester, Newcastle,
04 Jan 2017
Respected travel website Travelzoo have predicted that 2017 will be the 'Year of Eastern Europe', increasing in popularity with many tourists shifting away from destinations affected by acts of terror in recent years.
The region is also attracting British holidaymakers in particular due to the value of the British pound. According to the number crunching experts at Travelzoo, stunning Eastern European destinations such as Bulgaria and Croatia are on average 30% cheaper than the more popular coastal region of Spain this year.
Bulgarian resorts such as Duni offer excellent value at almost 30%
13 Dec 2016
Established back in 2006 by desire to promote sustainable tourism, Alpine Pearls is a pan-European tourism organisation of approx. 30 mountain communities dubbed as 'Pearls' having several objectives in common: encouraging car-free arrival to holiday destination, having easy access to public transport on site and numerous offers of environmentally friendly holiday programmes.
Priding itself for offering visitor an idyllic surrounding landscape with "50 shades of green" Lake Bled fulfils stringent qualifying criteria including environmentally friendly leisure facilities (including a full motor-boat ban on the lake!),
