Summer Season 2007 Already Started
In 2007 Bulgaria opened the tourism earlier than usual in order to have more time to promote vacation opportunities in the country, head of the State Agency for Tourism (SAT) Anelia Kroushkova said. On April 20 Kroushkova attended the opening of the season in Sunny Beach resort, together with Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev. Stanishev’s presence showed active state support for the development of the tourism sector, Kroushkova said. The industry deserves respect since tourism forms 14 per cent of the GDP, said Kroushkova. On April 20 representatives of the sector will sign a memorandum for the creation of a confederation of the Bulgarian tourism. NGOs will try to achieve consolidation and come up with unified position on major issues in the sector through the creation of the confederation. Representatives of some tourism companies said that such confederation is unnecessary. Unified policies can be achieved without the setting up of a separate entity, they said. In addition, Bulgarian government will impose a construction ban in all Black Sea coastal resorts during the summer season. The draft law for Bulgarian Black Sea coastal development was approved on second reading on April 19. The ban will include all resorts and vacation villages and will be valid in the period from May 15 to October 1. Urgent repair works in the resorts will be the only exceptions allowed. Construction of new vacation villages and the expansion of existing ones will be allowed if these have construction density of 30 per cent, construction intensity of 1.2 per cent and the average height of the building is up to 10m. Requirements for villa areas are for a 40 per cent construction density and intensity of up to 0.8 per cent with construction height up to seven m.
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