The French bank BNP Paribas has been chosen yesterday by the managing boards of the National electric company to finance the construction of “Belene” nuclear power plant in Bulgaria.This announced the minister of economy and energy Peter Dimitrov, cited by BNR.He added also that the demolition of the construction field which was being made decades ago should start withing the next few weeks. още »

Teradata Corporation, the global leader in enterprise data warehousing, today announced that MobilTel AD, Bulgaria's number one mobile operator, is implementing a Teradata system for pan-enterprise business intelligence with a focus on marketing analytics to improve customer relationship management (CRM). The Teradata information environment will provide both deeply detailed data as well as aggregated reports - resulting in faster and more accurate intelligence for decision making. още »

In the first three months of 2008, the airports govern by Fraport Group had serviced over 16 million people, or with 4,4% more than the previous period. Due to the loading during the Easter holidays, the tourism destinations towards South and South Eastern Europe, along with the North Africa ones, marked strong increase in the last month.The road traffic at the airports managed by Fraport Group had increased considerably in March. още »

A contract for change of the 'Unified complex of technical means' of the three channels of “Koloduy” nuclear power plant's blocks 5&6' safety system will be signed today in the Ministry of foreign affairs.The project will be implemented by the Ukrainian scientific company “Radii”, which won the project after a competition.The Ukrainian minister of foreign affairs Volodimir Ogrizko will sign the contract between NPP “Kozloduy” and “Radii” during his official visit to Bulgaria. още »

The Bulgarian minister of environment Djevdet Chakurov will take part in the opening of the international business forum “Maritza” in the town of Plovdiv, informed the press center of the ministry. This year the forum is held under the title “Unification of the resources for the development of the regions”. During the forum, minister Chakurov will present the funding opportunities for municipal projects under functional program “Environment”. още »

We can expect positive grow of about 2-3% from the German market, compared to the past summer. Fact is that the German market is neither dramatically up, not dramatically down. The British market, at least in TUI firms develops in the same level as in 2007 with a tendency of slide increase.Meanwhile the Scandinavian market there is an obvious drop.This was stated by Valentin Yosifov, deputy chairperson of the Union of Tourism Investors, chairperson of TUI Bulgaria and representative of the international tour-operator for the country. още »

The leadership of the Spanish city of Pamplona is ready to co-operate with Bulgarian seaside city of Varna for preparation of projects in absorption money from the EU funds. This was announced by the time of the meeting between Varna municipality chief peter Karandilov and the mayor of Pamplona professor Yolanda Angulo.In Navarre's government exists special department that works with EU projects, helping this way the drop in the unemployment rate. още »

The extreme tourism turns to be one of the latest hits of the tourism agencies, says data of local tourism website travel.bg. Over 12,000 Bulgarians on different age showed interest towards possibilities for extreme experience and rest among the beautiful Bulgarian nature in April.For the moment the most requested extreme activity is rafting - dropping by the fast waters of Struma river in Kresna gorge. още »

Improvement of the tourist attractions, development of the destinations' marketing and national tourist marketing are the three priorities in one of the measures under Functional program “Regional development”. This informed Assen Gagauzov, minister of regional development during a conference “Money for tourism”.The projects which aim at attracting tourists and which have not only local but regional scope will be favoured. още »