site.btaBulgarian Hotels to Host First German Medical Tourists
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Bulgarian Hotels
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First German Medical Tourists
Sofia, September 27 (BTA) - Twenty-six Bulgarian hotels and spa centres have been approved by German health insurance companies and will be able to host health insured Germans from Saturday, said Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova. These places have met Bulgarian and German requirements for the provision of health rehabilitation services, she added.
At the opening of the sixth annual congress of the Bulgarian Union of Balneology and SPA Tourism, Angelkova said that Germany is among key markets for Bulgaria. The Minister said an agreement with the Association of German Health Insurance Companies has been signed and Bulgaria has been given the green light to work with German health insurers.
AHK Bulgarien CEO Mitko Vassilev told the forum that with joint efforts Bulgaria has been put on the map of German national insurance funds and that the project has been in the works for two years.
Siyka Katsarova, President of the Bulgarian Union of Balneology and SPA Tourism,
said that Bulgaria's positioning on the European market is their main goal.
Ivo Marinov, head of the tourism agency with the Sofia Municipality said that under the capital's master plan a total of 35 hydrothermal centres will be renovated or built. RY/PP/МЙ/
MY1728NW.114
114 ECONOMY-TOURISM-CONGRESS-REMARKS
Bulgarian Hotels
to Host
First German Medical Tourists
Sofia, September 27 (BTA) - Twenty-six Bulgarian hotels and spa centres have been approved by German health insurance companies and will be able to host health insured Germans from Saturday, said Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova. These places have met Bulgarian and German requirements for the provision of health rehabilitation services, she added.
At the opening of the sixth annual congress of the Bulgarian Union of Balneology and SPA Tourism, Angelkova said that Germany is among key markets for Bulgaria. The Minister said an agreement with the Association of German Health Insurance Companies has been signed and Bulgaria has been given the green light to work with German health insurers.
AHK Bulgarien CEO Mitko Vassilev told the forum that with joint efforts Bulgaria has been put on the map of German national insurance funds and that the project has been in the works for two years.
Siyka Katsarova, President of the Bulgarian Union of Balneology and SPA Tourism,
said that Bulgaria's positioning on the European market is their main goal.
Ivo Marinov, head of the tourism agency with the Sofia Municipality said that under the capital's master plan a total of 35 hydrothermal centres will be renovated or built. RY/PP/МЙ/
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