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…

Editorial Twenty-Five years on and it’s that time of year again when we re-cap some of the stories that have grazed our newsletter throughout the year. Of course these are just a snippet of some of the many stories, facts…

Editorial How safe are you and your data The question of “how safe is your data’” seems to be a re-occurring theme these days with hardly a week passing by without some high profile organization admitting that their data systems…

Editorial Bed Time Stories The acceleration of the date when Bulgaria will take over the seat of the EU presidency from the second half of 2017 to 1st January 2018 will no doubt have sent the local state employees, brought…

Editorial Retribution time? Ryanair have changed the face of air travel in Europe - for better or for worse. What they do is deliver to their passengers exactly” what it says on the box’”. They have brought air travel to…

Editorial Imagine the scene; the local inhabitants of Bourgas and Varna parading in the streets, smashing hotel windows and daubing graffiti on restaurants filled with throngs of tourists from across the globe, their message – go home tourists we don’t…

Editorial Controlled by technology Are each and everyone of us becoming too dependent on technology? That same question has been heard now for several years but when asked five or ten years ago, any such dependence we thought we had…