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Bulgarian FM to open first meeting of new tourism committee

Tue, Nov 25 2008 12:47 CET

bySpasena Baramova

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On November 26, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivailo Kalfin will open and host the first meeting of the newly-created consultative committee on tourism, the press service of the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The meeting is expected to discuss a project for a national strategy for sustainable development of tourism in Bulgaria for the period 2008/13, as well as a draft law on amendments to the Tourism Act. It will also review the annual programme for national tourism advertisement for 2009 and will discuss the requirements towards the tourism associations listed in the National Tourism Register.

The committee was created in October 2008 at the initiative of Kalfin, who is its chairperson. Bulgaria's Ministers of Regional Development, Transport, Finance, Environment and Water Affairs, as well as the Economy and Energy Minister, the Interior Minister and the head of the Foreign Minister's cabinet are the Government representatives in it. The non-governmental sector, for its part, is represented by the National Confederation of the Tourism Industry, the Union of Bulgarian Tourism Industry, the Union of Investors in Tourism and the National Association of Municipalities in Bulgaria.

The head of the State Tourism Agency Anelia Kroushkova is the deputy chairperson of the committee.

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