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Bulgarian Tourist Information Center
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Bulgaria
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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
1984 John Postel defines the
Domain Name System (DNS)
1985 first .com registered
it took
5 years before 1.000 domains
10 years before 10.000 domains
and 15 years before 10 million
domains came alive
VB.com/1985
1986 Opening of a small
Phone Boutique in France that will
turn into Cybercafe de Paris
/ Cremerie de Paris,
an avant-garde webcafe
where was invented
Phone Book of the World,
later home of the Global Visit List.
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
Edward 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
based between San Francisco
and
Bulgaria.
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 Tourism Board of Bulgaria.
Founded by major
Tourism Stakeholders,
Tour Operators, Hotels.
2008 Bulgaria's well known
Tourism rose logo
appears on
the Tourism portal
BulgariaTourism.org
The yellow-orange spiral rose
also reprents
the sun.
2009 State Agency dissolved
2013 Visit Bulgaria.com
gets a beautiful new logo,
each letter representing
an image of the country.
2014 Visit Bulgaria.com
gets a second logo
2014 Ministry of Tourism
re-established.
2025 Miroslav Borshosh
becomes Minister of Tourism
in the government of Rosen Zhelyazkov
office assumed 16-01-2025
Borshosh
has a lot of marketing know-how
as the former President
of the National Palace of Culture
an important Congress Center
He 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
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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