We expected the season to be significantly weaker.

However, we were able to cope with a more aggressive advertising and calming of the markets after the war in Ukraine, because there was mistrust at the beginning.

But tourists got used to the war, as they got used to the coronavirus, and started traveling again.

This was shared by the acting Minister of Tourism, Ilin Dimitrov, in an interview for "Day Live" on Nova News

Ilin Dimitrov was born in 1983. He completed his secondary education in a high school with teaching.

The minister pointed out that over 60,000 tourists from Russia visited Bulgaria, mainly property owners.

Until things stabilize, the Russian market will be at low levels in our country, noted Dimitrov.

How was the summer season?

According to him, our country will try to attract Turkish tourists to our resorts.

Turkey has a population of over 80 million and is a close market.

Besides, Bulgaria is a familiar country for Turkey.

Our food is delicious, we have good spa and wellness tourism, cultural tourism.

We also have many nice hotels in Sunny Beach, Albena, St.

St. Constantine and Helena, explained the official minister.

Is vacation in Bulgaria expensive?

On the subject of refugees, Ilin Dimitrov

Ilin Dimitrov was born in 1983. He completed his secondary education at a high school teaching expressed the opinion that the Ministry of Tourism should not be responsible for refugees, as this is the work of the State Agency for Refugees.

Our task is to start integrating these people, and the resorts are not the right place for that.

They must enter the interior of the country.

Imagine Sunny Beach full of refugees in winter - no hospitals, no pharmacies, no kindergartens.

It is necessary to think in a completely different way, he commented

The state gives more than BGN 5 million to hoteliers who accommodated Ukrainian refugees

He added that to date 19,563 refugees have been accommodated in hotels and government bases, of which 8,000 work in the tourism sector.

In conclusion, the Acting Minister of Tourism announced that a new type of advertising is being considered, in which influencers and TikTokers will take an active part, stressing that "social networks are the future".

Ilin Dimitrov