Bulgaria Ski discussion board

another thought provoking question, nothing against a country or a resort trying to improve itself but the capacity of pamporovo resort next year is set to more than double but and this is a health and saftey BUT,the mountain we all ski down aint big enough and if you have 12000 i will say that again 12000 people by midweek all skiing from the top down there is going to be accidents it might well do for the local economy but i think the bulgarians that control and run this resort should look further than the end of there noses. i have enjoyed going to pamps for 3 years my parents 13 years but i am going to give other resorts a look at outside bulgaria even at the extra expense to myself sooner that risk injury to myself or other people on crowded slopes

I was skiing in Voralberg recently (not known to the average, package holiday type of Brit), at cost no greater than that in Bulgaria, incl. flights, hotel, etc (but that is a subject for another conversation). The Austrians have put a limit on the number of tourists that can visit the place, so facilities are excellent, short queues at the lifts, everything is extremely well organised and there are no accidents of the type you have mentioned above. The problem with Bulgaria is that whereas the State relies on handouts from the European Union only to improve the infrastructure, it cannot control construction (give the appropriate bribe to the local authority and you can build anything you want, anywhere you want). The entire administration (police, courts, customs, civil servants from local authorities up to the Government stinks of coruption and it is all about greed, greed and greed again!