„The decline in tourism is primarily our fault“

The decline in the number of tourists in Bulgaria is the result of our error, omissions, advertising, infrastructure, global crisis, says president of the Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant Association (BHRA) Blagoi Ragin.

Many factors. I do not want to justify. This is the situation, Ragin said in an interview with Focus. „We were made prior to realize that if we can keep it fell to 7 percent will be a success, and now we have 2% better than what we expected,“ he added. According to him this fall by 5% is normal, almost all European countries have problems with reduced numbers of tourists.
The only country that has no problems, this is Turkey, because there is state policy, there is a program to respond in a crisis. And these results – the Turks have shown that they can and in a crisis to preserve its potential, said the chairman of BHRA. According to him Bulgaria’s rival parties are used for advertising over 100 million – 150 million euros.
We have a lot of finances, but our proposal was with the resources of the state, municipalities and industry to go out of the markets and to attack these markets for next year are promising. I mean – the Balkan market, Central Europe – where we have large reserves. Starting from Belgrade and Skopje, which would not have visas. In Bucharest have reserves – we at least 15-16% to attract tourists. Large reserve is in Prague, Bratislava and Poland, said predsedetalyat of BHRA Blagoi Ragin.

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