December 2018 Newsletter
Editorial Here we are at the year end once again, a cycle that seems to accelerate the older we become. This past year has seen its usual comings and goings and the usual issues re re re-appearing when it comes…
Editorial Here we are at the year end once again, a cycle that seems to accelerate the older we become. This past year has seen its usual comings and goings and the usual issues re re re-appearing when it comes…
Editorial Is the writing on the wall As Bulgaria stepped out of communism and into the free world (sic) in the early 1990s, one airline company was vital for the new found connectivity that the country needed with the new…
Editorial Bansko - Value for money again The winter season is just around the corner and the ski resort of Bansko will be delighted to read that it has returned to the top of the class when it comes to…
Editorial The future is online, isn't it? We are constantly bombarded with the ‘’it's online” slogan by everyone from banks to retailers, from government to utility provider. The world does, at times, feel like it’s totally ‘’online’’. Doing anything online…
Editorial Economy teachers of an older age must be struggling to get to grips with the “new economic world’. Just as Economy teachers in those countries that were considered to be any of either socialist/communist/command economy/dictatorships (or all of the…
Editorial Does demand create supply or does supply create demand; a question that sounds like something taken from an economics class. When it comes to the Travel Industry the same question can still be asked and indeed both scenarios could…
Editorial Labour shortage bites Not for the first time the Bulgarian Black Sea seems to be suffering from a shortage of summer labour. An estimated 2700 vacancies are struggling to be filled according the Country’s Employment Agency. Staff shortages are…
Editorial On the home front Bulgaria has lost its long held top (bottom) spot to Romania in the European road death rate! It can now rightly claim its drivers are not the worst in Europe, though many would argue differently.…
Editorial The Extended Winter As the winter ski season nears its end and before we get to read the official statistics that show that ‘”2018 was a record year with x% more visitors than last year’”, a fact which will…
Editorial Options Become More Exotic The laws of economics and to supply and demand theory seems to be severely questioned when Low Cost Airlines enter a market. It seems in most cases they create a demand by offering a new…
Editorial On the home front A lot is happening on the home front, here is a run through of what’s what in the local travel world: - Finally, a new road to Sofia Airport; It only took 11 years but…