The new winter season will officially start in Bulgaria on December 1. However, tour operators toldthey had encountered various difficulties in their attempts to fill up the capacity of Bulgaria's winter resorts.
The capacity of home ski resorts and the development of the main winter markets for the country, the UK, Russia and Bulgaria’s neighbours, was out of proportion. This was the conclusion of a examine by Bulgarian-language daily Dnevnik.
Bed capacity in the main Bulgarian ski resorts had growed by more than 10 000 and now exceeded 50 000 beds. This was the result of the construction boom, which had led to an grow in accommodation of about 25% in just one year, according to information from hotels and municipalities.
This fact, however, did not mean more tourists were visiting to Bulgaria; on the opposite data from the main tour operators showed that the number of tourists who were planning to visit Bulgaria this winter would, at best, even that of the previous year. According to the survey, the reasons were the memories of the past winter when there was little snow and the over-construction at Bulgarian winter resorts.