Lunar landscapes sea after ten years

After ten years of five percent of the hotel area will become a „dead zone“ of oskeleteli and left hotels with pinch windows, cables, floor coverings, missing windows and no roof. This estimate did for BTA Director of the Institute of Analysis and evaluation of tourism Roumen Draganov.
Currently 20 percent of hotels in the country are closed, they at least five per cent full economic not as consistent as the location, as well as volume and type of material. These hotels, if not months or years be restructured, will continue to bear losses for their owners, said Draganov. According to him, the problem will worsen especially after another five years if their sale is delayed because of high costs for their maintenance and security. He predicted that the deteriorating economic situation in many of the abandoned hotels, discarded in the middle of fields or forests will be spoiled.
According to the president of Almatur „Liubomir Pankovski each hotel is a business project and, if it be inexpedient, this hotel not only can be abandoned, but even broken down. He did not commit to a percentage of the future „dead zones“ because it mainly depends on the behavior of business owners. One salvation for hotels candidates „dead zones“ has immediate restructuring and change their function, such as in hospitals, hospices, homes for the elderly and even prisons, said Draganov. According Pankovski if the hotel is not successful, it is reasonable to seek a restructuring of its form – for example – as a children’s holiday camps, business buildings and apartments to be sold as real estate. Yet he, however, is early to speak of the emergence of a trend in the country. Draganov said that over 700 sites – hotels, apartment complexes or estates of more than ordinary house, are now for sale.
Negative trend is expected to affect a large part of the apartment complexes that within the next two – three years to become a weight for their owners, said Draganov. In his decision on the fate of such objects is through immediate legislative changes to allow the introduction of shearing time in Bulgaria. It’s a change in the law of property to allow povremenna sale. Now, by law a property may be sold by perfect parts. With the changes to a property can be divided as povremenno 12 parts and has 12 owners who will be able to use it in one months a year, explained Draganov. Now buying a house one years does not go favorably for high cost and because of that the house usually can not use more than one months, said Draganov. According Pankovski introduction of this system would be a good option for managing and sharing ownership in such property. This form, which works in the world and there is no reason it should not be offered as an option, he added.
FORECASTING
According to the Institute for analysis and evaluation in tourism is expected in August by 7 per cent per cent growth in Bulgarian Bulgarian tourist resorts to the same month last year. The only destination that has now is that growth for the Bulgarians in Bulgaria, said Pankovski and added that his company growth of Bulgarian tourists who want to rest at home is over 60 per cent.
According to the institute last year in tourism in order to have traveled around 16.5 mln.balgari, of which 6.8 million tourists. This year’s expected growth of around 3 percent in the number of Bulgarians who will continue to rest in the country because of good prices and the decline in home visits to EU countries, said Draganov. In his words for this year is expected to reach the same number of Bulgarian and foreign tourists as last year when a decline of around 5 – 5.5 per cent. When such results are expected to be achieved and last year’s bed occupancy of around 37 per cent.
By the end of last month decline in revenue from tourism is around seven percent, with expected annual revenue to fall between 20 and 25 per cent. Draganov, according to results of both the price at the beginning of the summer season between 10 and 30 percent, and reducing the cost of the tourists, who spend much more economical to your vacation last year.
Early or late sign ups
According Draganov next year will remain the tendency to dominate late entries for the rest. They are now within 85 percent. Pankovski said that tourism industry now works as this to restore the interest of tourists to the earlier entries in the following year. If last year’s reductions were ten percent, now we talk about twice as high discounts for early registrations for next year, said Pankovski. Draganov informed that between large firms and foreign tour operators Bulgarian hotels fight for very low prices for new contracts next year with all the reductions made at the time because of the crisis. Although these rates are reduced by 15 or 20 to one hundred in 2008 and will provide sufficient revenue hotel, our advice is to sign contracts for the expected rise in the price of money in 2010, said Draganov. All proceeds will be welcome to zero, he added.
MINISTRY OF TOURISM
Representatives of industry renewed its request to tourism in a separate department or other state institution. They state must assume the management of public state and municipal assets in tangible and intangible cultural heritage and natural assets related to tourism. Hope is the state to take their advertising and to invest in them through operational programs. Currently, tourism is 40 percent privately owned and 60 percent state that is not managed, said Draganov.
Pankovski indicate the need for targeted intervention of the state in preparing a national advertising and presence in the country in all major markets of Bulgaria.

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