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
more about Bulgaria
Phone Book of the World
Wikipedia
Bulgaria has
354 km of Black Sea coastline
10 Unesco World Heritage sites
Top 10 Tourist Attractions of Bulgaria
- 01Rita Monastery
- 02Alexander Nevesky Cathedral (Sofia)
- 03old town of Plovdiv
- 04old town of Nessebar
- 05Seven Rita Lakes
- 06Veliko Tatnovo Fortress
- 07Bansko
- 08Belogradchick Rocks
- 09Royana Churn
- 10Rose 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 Agency based between San Francisco and Bulgaria.
Visit Bulgaria.com was developed by
Kristina Avrionova and Orlin Mirchev
Both are very artistic and connected to the
San Francisco Bulgarian Film Festival
Kristina also worke in the Sillicon Valley
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
Miroslav Borshosh has a lot of marketing know-how as the former President of the National Palace of Culture an important Congress Center.
The new minister takes different innovation measures to modernise communication for Bulgaria's Tourism industry.
His most important decision was to aquire the domain
VisitBulgaria.com from a Bulgarian Travel Agency.
The aquision process was very complicated
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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