Tourism Agency Head: Dishonest Tourists Smear Bulgaria's Reputation

Business | July 19, 2008, Saturday // 00:00
Tourism Agency Head: Dishonest Foreign Tourists Smear Bulgaria??™s Reputation: Tourism Agency Head: Dishonest Tourists Smear Bulgaria's Reputation The Chair of Bulgaria's State Tourism Agency said Friday many foreign tourists used fake complaints to get a refund on their vacation in Bulgaria. Photo by Kameliya Atanassova (Sofia Photo Agency)

Chair of Bulgaria's State Tourism Agency, Aneliya Krushkova, stated Friday there had been many cases of unscrupulous foreign tourists smearing the country's reputation by claiming to have had non-existent problems during their vacations.

Krushkova's statement came in response to publications in UK media that dozens of British tourists had fallen sick with gastric problems during their vacation in Bulgaria, and that a British family had found hotel staff having sex in the room in a Bulgarian hotel.

The Chair of the State Tourism Agency pointed out she had always stated before foreign ambassadors and everywhere else that such a negative image of Bulgaria's resort was unwarranted until the specific cases were proven.

"In fact it turns out that many of the foreign tourists speculate by claiming they had been robbed, raped, or, as in this specific case, that someone saw somebody else doing something in another's room, and so on. However, these are situations that could easily be proven because all good hotels already have video observation everywhere", Krushkova said.

She emphasized that when taken to the police foreign tourists who had claimed to have been assaulted or raped, they admit rather quickly that they were just speculating in order get a refund on the money they paid for their vacation.

"The money they usually pay for a holiday in our resorts is really not that much at all so I can hardly see the point of doing this. These people want to break even, so to say, from their vacation in Bulgaria", Krushova concluded.

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