The Bulgarian Minister of Tourism, Nikolina Angelkova, met with the Turkish ambassador to Bulgaria, Hasan Ulusoy.
They discussed the relationship between the two countries and the future of their shared tourism industry.
Nikolina Angelkova and Hasan Ulusoy discussed the establishment of a joint workgroup of experts from both countries that would organize events in Turkey and Bulgaria that aim to increase and popularize tourism.
Angelkova said that Turkey’s business is incredibly important for Bulgaria, taking the second place for incoming tourism for the first trimester of 2018. As the countries are fairly close, and both have a strong tourism industry, both Bulgarians and Turks often visit their neighbor on vacations.
11 million people visited Bulgaria in 2017, and 94 811 of them came from Turkey.