Sat, May 26 2012

Bulgaria's Economy Ministry revokes licences of 105 tour operators

Tue, Oct 26 2010 07:53 CET

byDnevnik.bg

2272 Views
Bulgaria's Economy Ministry revokes licences of 105 tour operators

Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgaria’s Economy Ministry said on October 25 that it had taken away the licences of 105 local tour operators because they had not renewed their mandatory liability insurance or had failed to inform the ministry that they had renewed their insurance.

According to the published list, most of the companies banned from providing travel services are relatively small, of which most are registered in Sofia or in cities on the Black Sea.

In August, according to the registry of tour operators and travel agents, more than 25 per cent of the tour operators registered in the country failed to obey regulations requiring them to renew their insurance policies each year and to inform the Economy Ministry.

The ministry said that in many cases, companies had signed insurance policies, but had not submitted notifications.

The ministry had carried out a thorough check of the sector and companies that had not submitted notifications had been warned that their licences would be revoked.

Source: Dnevnik.bg

  • Print
  • Send via email
  • Translate to
  • Share:

To post comments, please, Login or Register.


Please read the The Sofia Echo forum comments policy.

Summer 2010 seeing surge of Russian holidaymakers at Bulgaria's seaside - tour operators

Russian tourists are flocking to the Bulgarian Black Sea in greater numbers as 'an increase of interest' is being reported by Russian tour operators.

Sea change

Local tourism industry hoping to cash in from sharp downturn in Bulgarians holidaying abroad

Organiser of fatal Ohrid Lake trip fined 4500 leva

The Municipal Court of Dimitrovgrad imposed a 4500 leva fine on Boryana Georgieva, the woman who organised the trip to Lake Ohrid in which 15 Bulgarian tourists lost their lives

More in this category

Bulgaria's tourism tax ruled unconstitutional

The tax, levied on hotel owners, is calculated based on occupancy rate in the hotel, but assumes that at least 30 per cent of a hotel's rooms are booked at all times.

Bulgaria expects more than 100 000 foreign tourists at Orthodox Christian Easter

Most will be from Romania, followed by Greeks, then Serbians, Macedonians and Montenegrins.

Bulgaria’s Pamporovo resort offering free skiing ahead of Easter

Despite the warmer weather, this past winter’s record snowfall will enable the resort to offer skiing until mid-April.

UK airlines slam planned hike in passenger duty

'How much longer must this madness go on?' ask UK airlines worried that planned increase will kill jobs and quash tourism-led recovery.

Cautionary tales as tour groups caught in the middle of money rows

Foreign and Bulgarian tourists victim of debt row at a Pamporovo hotel, Foreign Ministry intervenes after another tour group delayed in Morocco, and Bulgarian arrested in Serbia for forging receipts for payment for tour group.

© 2000-2012, Sofia Echo Media Ltd.

Web Design by RIZN

Sofia Echo Media is part of the Economedia Group.
The news and information content on this website is provided by our editorial team and is copyrighted. Any unauthorised reproduction or use of it is strictly forbidden. Reproduction of this website's content is permitted only with prior written permission from the Editor-in-Chief, should be propertly acredited and provide an active link back to our site. Comments posted by the website's visitors are independent of the editorial materials and do not represent the views of sofiaecho.com. Sofia Echo Media cannot be held responsible for the statements contained in visitor comments. The percentаge change in the shares' prices are based on the price of the last transaction of the current session compared to the price of the last transaction of the previous session. Bulgarian Stock Exchange data is not real-time, but updated every 15 minutes, and should not be used as a basis for decisions about buying or selling stock options.