Varna's Palace of Culture and Sports hosts a show for wine and tourism ‘Vinotur - Varna 2008'. The event starts on Wednesday, April 23 and will continue until Friday.Twenty-two Bulgarian wine-cellars will attend the expo, presenting best of their wines and wine tourism possibilities.The show aims to get together local cellars and producers with tour operators and hoteliers from the Black sea coast. още »

Curently more than 95% of Bulgarian enterprises, who have access to the gas distribution infrastructure, consume natural gas, informs the press center of Overgas.The natural gas is the best energy alternative for the industry and representatives from the sector have oriented towards use of the blue fuel. The reasons are two: high profitability of the production because of the low price of gas and the lack of expensive investments in purifying installations. още »

The Indonesian town of Solo shows interest in the Bulgarian town of Montana. The new ambassador of Indonesia to Bulgaria Immanuel Inkiriwang claimed at a meeting with the mayor of Montana that the Bulgarian and the Indonesian towns need specific steps in the five fields of cooperation – human resources management, local economic development, tourism, culture and waste management, informed Darik radio. още »

The Bulgarian parliament adopted on second reading the draft law for Bulgarian Development Bank. The Encouragement bank, which was created in 1999 is transformed into Bulgarian development bank (BDB). National guarantee fund and Fund for capital investment will also be created. The bank is established as credit institution – joint stock company, in which the state participation in the capital is not less than 51%. още »

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 »