Bulgaria Ski discussion board

Lots of people are saying that Bulgaria is losing return visitors and if only "they" could pull themselves together to provide better value, people would come back to Bulgaria.

They problem is, who are "they"? Bulgarian tourism is in complete chaos and everyone is in it for quick profit. Developers have been destroying the environs because they want to build and sell as many apartments as possible, as quickly as possible (no more); the local authorities have been careless about whether building these apartments was sustainable because they were getting their bungs from the developers; waiters and other staff in the resorts have only been interested in the cash they would take home every night (not worrying whether they would be able to take the same amount of cash home next year); etc., etc. There is just no person or organisation over there with long-term thinking who can pull all the strands together and sort things out. In fact, the entire country is one big mess - just see how the EU announced last week that Bulgaria is losing EURO220 million of aid because of the government's inability to deal with all the corruption and organised crime; the fate of another EURO320 million is hanging in the air and the EURO11 billion of structural funding which Bulgaria was due to receive in the next seven years is also under threat. What can I say...