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 Bulgaria’s vacation property maintained its status as the most profitable real estate investment.A research of showed that most luxurious vacation property was located in the coastal Sunny Beach resort, Dnevnik newspaper reported.More than 1600 vacation apartments were offered for sale. Nearly half were located in Sunny Beach.

Bulgarian tourism will develop at a comparatively high pace, but the country will continue to lose tourists from some of its main markets. This was written in the latest report by the independent Centre for Economic Development (CED), published on August 3.The downsizing in the number of tourists from Germany and, to some extent, from the UK that has already been registered this summer season will be preserved as a trend.

First came golf courses, now luxury holiday villas have taken leisure facilities to a tempting extreme. Graham Norwood profiles homes with spas included
Spas used to be associated with the ancient practice of bathing in hot springs and mineral waters - but now, as increasing numbers of overseas-holiday-home owners can testify, spas have a 21st century spin added to them.

Nearly 700 000 tourists are expected to visit the Balchik Palace by the end of the summer season, director of the Balchik cultural institute Toshko Giaurov said.
By the end of August the number of visitors would reach 600 000, which was the total for 2005, Bulgarian news agency BTA reported.

Bulgaria is once again becoming a paradise for Czech tourists, local media claim.
With moderate prices, quality of services offered raising by the year, and newer hotels, Bulgaria is drawing Czech tourists, who had forgotten the Black Sea, back a report by Idnes.cz says.

Bansko. ‘At the moment all ski equipment is being subjected to reparation and maintenance. We are working hard in the mountain in view of the preparation for the winter season’, the Mayor of the Bulgarian ski resort of Bansko Aleksandar Kravarov said in an interview for FOCUS Radio – Pirin.
 

 Bulgaria's seaside resort of Sunny Beach is so fully booked that some hotels have resorted to adding campbeds in the rooms to accommodate the tourists.There is not a single free bed in the resort, Dimitar Yankov of the Nessebar Municipal Council told Standart daily.

Bulgaria's ski resort of Bansko will see a new ring road, which will be built over the following year. Traffic jams that are hellish at the peak of the winter season have brought forth the need for a new road, BNR reported.

Bulgaria's Balkan resort of Bansko has seen the other side of the immigration from Eastern Europe, the Independent writes on Saturday, focusing on the number of Brits that have flooded the town.What was once typically Bulgarian is today "a small corner of Britain in a foreign field", author Andrew Osborn believes. The British diaspora own half of the houses in the area, and a pub that caters to their nostalgia with Sky TV, English breakfasts and cider. They come to Bulgaria because of the low prices of land and beer and the great skiing and nature.

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