Bulgarian tourism with Balkan awards

Focus News/Information Agency Focus
December 11, 2007

Sofia. Three prestigious Balkan awards were presented to Bulgarian tourist objects in the regular congress of the Balkan Association of Hotel and Restaurant Keepers held in Belgrade last week. Abraham Rosenthal – Director General of the International Association of Hotel and Restaurant Keepers, who was a special guest of the congress, personally presented to Stefan Sharlopov the award for Best SPA Complex on the Balkans 2007 for his Park Hotel Pirin in Sandanski, a part of the chain Sharlopov Hotels. Award for Best Restaurant Chain on the Balkans 2007 was given to the popular chain Happy whose owner is Orlin Popov. Award for most quickly developing hotel on the Balkans 2007 was given to the owner of Astreya Marin Hadzhiev in the city of Hisar. Economy Ministry against capital increase of Plovdiv ExpoBG 129122 2007-12-11 12:44:26 Sofia.Minister of Economy and Energy Petar Dimitrov authorized Valentin Gruev Director of Industrial Relations Direction to vote with all shares owned by the state on the matters of today’s extraordinary meeting of the International Trade Show Plovdiv JSC. The representative of the Ministry would vote ‘against’ the increase of the capital of the enterprise through issuing of new shares. There is a decision of Council of Ministers that the state share of the enterprise could not be lower than 51% thus keeping the majority of shares. Apart from that the enterprise is in the prohibition list of the Privatization Law. Foreign carriers register in BulgariaBG 129124 2007-12-11 12:55:44 Plovdiv. There was a tendency of carriers from states which were not members of the EU to register in Bulgaria, President of the National Transport Chamber Koycho Rusev said for FOCUS News Agency. According to him a way should be discussed to protect the interests of the Bulgarian carriers.