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Macedonians & Serbians with free tourist visa for Bulgaria

Tuesday, Mar 31, 2009

The citizens of Serbia and Macedonia will visit Bulgaria with free tourist visa in order to support the field. This claimed the Bulgarian deputy prime minister Ivaylo Kalfin in the Council of Ministers after the session of the State-public consultative committee on tourism, informs Money.bg.

The removal of the paid visa for the Serbian tourists will cost the state around 4 million euro, and for the Macedonians – around 3 million euro.

Another measure is the equalization of the VAT rates for the different tourist services, which at the moment are between 5% and 7%. The transition will be to the lower rate, said also Kalfin.

From last year’s surplus the country has 5 million euro for advertisement of the Bulgarian tourist product, with 6 million of them being for promotions in Bulgaria, and the remaining for presentations abroad.

The deputy prime minister reminded that free visa have been introduced for children from Russia and Ukraine aged up to 18 and travelling in a group as well as for children aged up to 11 with their parents. This act of the Bulgarian government is expected to affect around 70 thousand people.

Source: News.bg