River cruise tourism – wonderful development opportunity for Vidin

19.05.2015

Cruise tourism is a wonderful perspective for the development of the regional town of Vidin situated on the bank of the Danube River.

About 181 river tourism ships are expected to be delivered and their number is increased by 10 % compared to the previous year. 22 000 cruise tourists visited the nice town in 2014, Nikolina Angelkova, the Bulgarian Minister of Transport has pointed out.

We need to take advantage of this opportunity and the municipalities should join their efforts to offer to the tourists interesting objects. The regional management works continuously as a German province is included in the joint project – Ortenau. An individual tourist package is drawn up for the arriving cruise tourists.

The package includes visits of historical and natural landmarks in the riverside town of Vidin and in the town of Belogradchik.

We are currently working on the signing of the declaration for enhancing the river cruise tourism, Angelkova said and added that this is about to be accomplished during the meeting of the ministers of tourism which will take place on 8 and 9 June in the Bulgarian capital city of Sofia.

Vidin region has huge tourism potential not only in terms of cruise tourism but also of the opportunities for inland tourism.

She reminded that a large campaign aiming to enhance the inland tourism is being accomplished and 50 less known spots are popularized. Among them are the interesting sights Konakat and the Kastra Martis fortress in the town of Kula.

About 78 % of Bulgarian citizens have booked night accommodations in 2014. Their average stay was 1 and 2 nights. More than 31 300 people have chosen Vidin as a place worth a visit.

The income of the night accommodations is totally BGN 1.8 million as 86 % thereof are due to Bulgarian tourists.

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