Bulgarian travel agencies hope for summer season and tourists from Russia

S. Atanasova, Chairman of the Bulgarian Association of Travel Agencies (BATA), told the Association of Tour Operators of Russia that BATA is confident in overcoming the peak of the epidemic in two months, and an active summer season.

13 March 2020 National Assembly Republic of Bulgaria He declared a month-long state of emergency in the country.

Doctors of leading hospitals were instructed to diagnose coronavirus arrived from Italy, Spain, Germany, France, China, Israel, South Korea. All visitors from these countries must undergo a 14-day home quarantine, and if they have symptoms of the virus, they are taken to hospitals.

The letter emphasizes that the measures should protect the population and tourists from contracting the virus, and prevent the spread of COVID-19 before the summer tourist season.

Every year Bulgaria receives more than nine million tourists, this industry provides about 13% of the national income of the country. The past winter season was successful and the virus did not affect our tourists and guests in the ski resorts of Bulgaria.

Bata hopes that timely precautions taken by the authorities will help prevent the development of the virus in Bulgaria and pass the peak of the epidemic before summer.

“There are still 2.5 months before it, hotels are actively preparing and recruiting staff, many of them extend the conditions of the early booking campaign,” says Svetlana Atanasova.

To prepare for the summer tourist season in the Bulgarian resorts decided to ban all public events for a month. Shopping centers are closed, but pharmacies, banks, gas stations, grocery stores work. Borders and airports are not closed.

Source: ria