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SS Konstantin and Elena Holding, owner of the Black Sea resort of the same name, will invest in the construction of tourist facilities in the nation's ski resorts, the company's managing manager Marin Mitev said at a working meeting of the National Tourism Board.
The company has already bought a 60 ha plot in Bansko, a ski resort in the Pirin mountain, South-western Bulgaria, which will be developed into a golf course and hotel complex, said Mitev.
SS Konstantin and Elena Holding has also acquired land in Borovets, the ski resort 73 km south-east of Sofia, for the construction of a 5-star hotel for year-round tourism.

Bulgaria has seen its popularity among tourists rocket in recent years and the country's tourist trade looks set to see another bumper year in 2006, forecast property investment experts from leading UK company Assetz."With the growth of low-cost travel helping to boost the boom in travel around Europe, Bulgaria has been a major beneficiary as travellers have looked to the country as the perfect destination."
According to Assetz agency Bulgaria is set to see a boost in visitor numbers throughout the course of 2006 because they are able to enjoy the warm weather and relatively cheap economy of the country.

More than two million Brits are heading off for holiday favourites this weekend to escape the sizzling heat that swept the country, show estimates of the Association of British Travel Agents.
Bulgaria is one of the most popular destinations, along with Greece, Portugal and the Canary Islands. The long-haul destinations for the more adventurous travellers include Brazil, Dubai and China.

According to Zoritsa Stavreva of the Bulgarian Association for Alternative Tourism (BAAT), Bulgarian family hotels and guest houses are, as a whole, of high quality. Specifically, she said to industry magazine Ho Re Mag, this applies to licensed and rated hotels that have had a few years’ operation experience. According to Stavrena, this pertains even more so to smaller hotels than to larger ones, due to the personal investment – both financially and emotionally – of the proprietors and care that the proprietors show towards their clients. And though smaller hotels market themselves independently, foregoing much or any help from large-scale advertising, they manage to sell themselves well because of their valuation of the client as a person, not just as a money source.

Skiing down fresh powdery slopes in the morning, a soothing soak in hot thermal baths under snowcapped mountains in the afternoon, and all within reach of your own ski apartment - it sounds as if it should cost the Earth. But it needn't. In fact, inexpensive mountain homes are becoming increasingly available as Europe becomes more accessible and property ownership rules relax.

For a real ski home bargain, it would be hard to beat Bulgaria.

Bansko, an intermediate-level ski resort in the south-west Pirin mountains has recently spent 130 million GBP on improving its 65km of pistes (which reach up to 2,560m) including a new cable car, seven chair lifts and six drag lifts.

The Times reports winter resorts in East European countries offer attractive vacation property.The publication writes various misconceptions concerning Bulgaria still persist. Yet, the country’s resorts present a rather different picture from popular beliefs. Bansko, one of the leading ski resorts in Bulgaria cannot challenge renown ski destinations but is expanding fast.

The Bulgarian property market has been receiving more good press this week, with properties around the popular ski resorts given particular praise.Writing for the Telegraph, Nicola Venning also pointed out that property investors can find surprisingly good deals in Spain, where Europe's most southerly ski resort can be found in the Sierra Nevada.The idea of buying a ski property in Spain may seem incongruous and many investors will understandably stick to more recognised property investment locations including the Costa del Sol and Mur

 Bulgaria's Black Sea resorts have received nearly 1.5 million foreign tourists for the 2006 summer season, shows a survey of the Analysis of Tourism Institute.
The numbers were announced at the tourism forum "Bulgaria's Mountains".

A new report has revealed that Bulgaria is making good progress towards meeting its required targets for entry into the European Union.Bulgaria is confident of accession into the EU in 2007 and despite an earlier report insisting that some improvements would be needed, the latest research from the EU has found that the country is now making good progress. It had previously been stated that there were a number of areas that Bulgaria needed to work on to guarantee its accession and the latest report suggests that the country is now well on its way to meeting those targets.Franco Frattini, European justice, freedom and security commissioner, has stated that Bulgaria is doing well in its attempts to improve the battle against organised crime and fraud – two areas in which the country had been ordered to improve. Mr Frattini is visiting the country ahead of its expected accession next year and according to the Sofia Echo, he has been impressed with the efforts he has seen to improve the country.

On August 24, an international real estate compamy published the first market overview of the Bulgarian holiday homes market. The report documents significant developments in recent years in both mountain and coastal resort areas.The holiday homes market in Bulgaria experienced significant development in the past year in these areas.Demand for holiday homes in the country has taken off in recent years. The upcoming EU accession, the growth of the tourism industry, and the comparatively low prices are among the main factors driving demand.Private middle-class individuals from Western Europe, mainly the UK and Ireland, account for most of the demand.The overall absorption rate of holiday homes developments as of June 2006 was estimated at 60 per cent in the mountain resorts and at 56 per cent for the coastal region. Bansko and St Vlas led demand in the mountain and coastal regions respectively, with absorption rates of 70 per cent and above.