Sunny Beach CEO Resigns, 340 Russian Tourists Still Stranded in Bulgaria
Mariya Mihaleva, CEO of the Bulgarian state-owned Sunny Beach company, has resigned, as some 340 Russian tourists are still stranded in the country.
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Mariya Mihaleva, CEO of the Bulgarian state-owned Sunny Beach company, has resigned, as some 340 Russian tourists are still stranded in the country.
Bulgaria's Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism Traicho Traikov has insisted that Mariya Mihaleva, CEO of the Sunny Beach summer resort should resign over the ongoing crisis involving Russian tourists stranded in the country.
Two Bulgaria Air flights are expected to deliver back home yet another batch of Russian tourists, who fell victims to a trade dispute between the country's national airline and a tour operator.
The Russian Federal Tourism Agency does not trust anymore Bulgarian authorities in charge of tourism, after more than 700 Russian nationals were held hostages for days at Bulgarian airports over a trade dispute, writes Russian media Tourprom.
Russian celebrity pop singer, Bulgarian-born, Philip Kirkorov, had wired money to several Russian tourists to come home from their vacation in Bulgaria.
All Russian tourists, who are still in Bulgaria, will be taken home, according to the promise of Transport Minister, Ivaylo Moskovski, made Wednesday.
Attorneys for Bulgaria Air, Bulgaria's national airline carrier and heir to Balkan Airlines, are still considering what are the exact legal steps to undertake in the dispute with tour operator, Alma Tour.
The problem with Russian tourists, who were stranded for days at the Black Sea airports of Varna and Burgas, has earned a number of negative comments in Russian media, saying Bulgaria is sloppy and its tourism is dead.
The behavior of Bulgaria Air, Bulgaria's national airline carrier and heir to Balkan Airlines and tour operator, Alma Tour, is absolutely irresponsible, according to Bulgarian Economy and Energy Minister, Traicho Traikov.
Cab drivers in Bulgaria's Black Sea capital Varna have called for the introduction of a "holiday fare".
Bulgaria Air, Bulgaria's national airline carrier and heir to Balkan Airlines, has started legal actions to collect the EUR 3.6 M owed to it by tour operator, Alma Tour.
The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has asked Border Police not to fine exiting Russian tourists who were stranded for days at two Bulgarian Black Sea airports in case their visas have expired.
One of the hundreds of Russian tourists who waited for 3 days to be returned home after a holiday in Bulgaria has complained of the adequacy of food given her and her fellow passengers during their wait at Burgas Airport.
Bulgarian tour agency Alma Tour has been banned in Finland after more than two hundred Finnish tourists were kept hostages at a Bulgarian airport because of the company's outstanding debts.
A Finish airline plane has rescued more than 200 Finns, stranded in Bulgaria's Burgas Airport after their flight was canceled in the wake of a trade dispute between the country's national airline and a tour operator.
Bulgaria's Sofia Prosecutor's Office will probe the Bulgarian Alma Tour tour operator and the Bulgaria Air airline carrier concerning the nearly 700 Russian and Finish tourists stranded in the country's southern Black Sea city of Burgas.
The airline carriers responsible for the transportation of some 700 Russian and Finnish tourists in Bulgaria's southern Black Sea city of Burgas will be returned with special flights, Bulgarian officials have promised.
Hotel owners in Bulgaria are considering inviting the tourists who spent three days at the airport of the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Burgas on a free vacation in June next year.
The issue with the Russian tourists who spent three days at the airport of the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Burgas has not been fully resolved.
Airline Bulgaria Air and tour operator Alma Tour are very likely to reach an agreement in the short term that would allow hundreds of stranded international tourists to return to their homes, reports say.
Hotel owners in Bulgaria's largest summer resort Sunny Beach are going to accommodate, free of charge, tourists who have been stranded for days now at the airport in the Black Sea city of Burgas.
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