Spanish Tourism Institute (STI) and the Spanish Tourism Office (STO) in Wien, which are in charge of the relations of Spain with the countries from Central and Eastern Europe, organised a tourism promotion days is Sofia on September 25 and 26 2007 to try to attract more Bulgarian tourists to Spain.

A conference was hosted on September 26 by the Radisson Hotel.

Representatives of the tourism industry from Spanish regions of Andalusia, Barcelona, Grand Canaria, Catalonia, Costa del Sol, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Tenerife, Valencia and Cadiz attended the conference.

The director of STO Wien Felix de Paz gave general figures about Spanish tourism in 2006. He said Spain was the second world tourism destination by tourist receipts for 2006.

STO intends to present Spain as a tourism destination on the Sofia exhibition Vakantsia 2008 (Holiday 2008).

In 2006, Spain was visited by 152 912 Bulgarians, more than 50 per cent of which were tourists, and a 30 per cent increase in comparison to the number of Bulgarian visitors in 2005.

In 2006, Spain was the seventh most preferred tourist destination for Bulgarians after Greece, Serbia, Turkey, Germany, Romania and Italy. For the period January-April 2007 Spain welcomed 64 877 Bulgarian visitors, 25 605 of which were tourists, 7514 came on an invitation, 24 532 were professionals.