About Visit Bulgaria.com
and Tourist Info

Visit Bulgaria.com
Bulgarian Tourist Information Center
Sveta Nedelya Square 1
1000 Sofia
Bulgaria
+359 883 339 332

mail: marketing@tourism.government.bg

instagram: @bulgariatravelorg
youtube: youtube.com/channel/UC8jHshlNTw5iMvYLAY333vg
facebook: fb.com/bulgariatravelorg
X: x.com/bgtravelorg
linkedin: linkedin.com/company/discoverbulgaria/




more about Bulgaria
Phone Book of the World
Wikipedia



Bulgaria has
354 km of Black Sea coastline
10 Unesco World Heritage sites

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Top 10 Tourist Attractions
of Bulgaria


1) Rita Monastery
2) Alexander Nevesky Cathedral (Sofia)
3) old town of Plovdiv
4) old town of Nessebar
5) Seven Rita Lakes
6) Veliko Tatnovo Fortress
7) Bansko
8) Belogradchick Rocks
9) Royana Churn
10) Rose Valley (Kanzanlak)




History of the website
and Tourism Marketing
in Bulgaria


Bulgaria Travel.org
Domain registration date: 12-10-2000

Visit Bulgaria.com
Domain registration date: 24-01-2002




Timeline

1985 first Internet Domains registered
it took 5 years before 1.000 domains
a decade before 10.000 domains came alive
VB.com/1985

1986 Opening of a small
Phone Boutique in France that will
turn into Cybercafe de Paris,
an avant-garde webcafe.

1994 Registation of the domain
Hotels.com 30-03-1994

1995 / 1996 The first Visitor Bureau,
VBs or CVBs
start to use the prefix "Visit"

2000 Registration
of BulgariaTravel.org

before 2001 first registration
of VisitBulgaria.com,
domain not renewed

2001 Launch of the website
VisitBulgaria.org
supported by the National Information
and Advertising Centre
of the Ministry of Economy

2002 Second Registration
of VisitBulgaria.com
by the investor
Edward Solomon
from New York

Solomon is a web pioneer
who aquired his know-how
as a New York attorney
specialised in internet services,
corporate communications
and marketing.
He also worked as a website designer
and digital photographer.

Solomon owned two dozands of
"Visit" domains
ending with .com .net and .org
(.org and .net were quite popular
in the early 2000s,
they are still respected
as historic TLDs,
but today much less used
than .com)

Solomon still owns
some ultra hi profile
Tourism domains like
Visit Asia.com
or Visit South America.com


2002 Aquisiton of the domain
Hotels.com
by HRN who rebrands
to Hotels.com
The company,
now part of Expedia
made it possible
to book Hotels in Bulgaria.

2005 State Agency for Tourism
founded in Bulgaria

2005 first sale of
VisitBulgaria.com
by Edward Solomon

The domain is
aquired by a Travel Agancy
besed between Bulgaria and California


A website
was developed by
Kristina Avrionova
and Orlin Mirchev

Both are very artistic
and connected to the
San Francisco Bulgarian Film Festival



2006 Establishment of
the National Toursim Board of Bulgaria.
Founded by major
Tourism Stakeholders,
Tour Operators, Hotels.


Visit Bulgaria.com
2008 Bulgaria's well known
Tourism rose logo
apperas on the Tourism portal
BulgariaTourism.org
The yellow-orange spiral rose
also reprents the sun.


2009 State Agency dissolved


Visit Bulgaria.com
2013 Visit Bulgaria.com
gets a beautiful new logo,
each letter representing
an image of the country


Visit Bulgaria.com
2014 Visit Bulgaria.com
gets a second logo


2014 Ministry of Tourism
re-established


2025 Miroslav Borshosh
new Minister of Tourism
in the government of Rosen Zhelyazkov

office assumed 16-01-2025

Borshosh,
previously President
of the National Palace of Culture
an important Congress Center
takes different
innovation measures
to boost Bulgaria's Tourism industry

One of his decisions was
to aquire the domain
VisitBulgaria.com
from a Bulgarian Travel Agency

2025 A public, two week valid
tender was published
with the intention
to aquire the domain 07-05-2025
for a budget of 72.900 euro


Visit Bulgaria.com
2025 Url of Bulgaria's Tourism Portal
changes from BulgariaTravel.org
to VisitBulgaria.com
18-05-2025

The Rose logo remains the same.

The Press Release features

" Replacing the previous domain
BulgariaTravel.org
with VisitBulgaria.com
forms part of a long-term vision
to create not merely an information site
but a genuine digital platform
that inspires travellers,
simplifies destination choice
and offers an experience
before a journey even begins,
Tourism Minister Miroslav Borshosh said."





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