"Romanian tourist have chosen to celebrate the coming New Year 2007 in our coastal town of Balchik. Eighty per cent of the Black Sea hotel reservations have been booked by Romanian nationals," Mr. Anton Minkov Head of Economic Development, Economic and Humanitarian Activities and Civil Registration in Balchik Municipality informed.

"Romanian tourists show keen interest in Bulgaria's Black Sea resorts," says Mr. Minkov as he believes that the current trend is due to excellent quality of services and facilities which the Bulgarian resorts offer. At the same time, the prices in Bulgarian hotels are much lower compared to the prices in the Romania resorts.

"In the middle of October, a fair of the tourist industry was held in Bucharest. It then became clear that Bulgarian hotels offer better quality and services than the hotels in Romania. At the fair, the town of Balchik was represented at the stall of Albena Black Sea resort and attracted huge visitors' interest," Mr. Minkov said further.