Plovdiv International Airport is ready to welcome charter flights with Chinese tourists who come on excursion in our country. This announced the mayor Ivan Totev at the joint briefing with representatives of the municipality of Shenzhen and Guangzhou, which participate in the International Meeting of tour operators in Plovdiv. We have all the conditions and potential for charter, which is organized together with Turkey, assured the mayor. According to him, charter flights to the airport in Krumovo can be carried out by neighboring countries either, which are visited by Chinese tourists.
Over 100 million Chinese circle the world annually . Only Guangzhou, where live about 13 million. people sent to Europe on average 400,000 tourists. In Bulgaria the share tends to zero – only 5,000 people have set foot on our land last year. Significantly, Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova focuses on meeting that should be developed more actively the cooperation with the tourism industry of China. To this end, discussing the possibility of easier visa and even visa-free regime, but also an international agreement for joint tourist routes with Romania, Greece and Turkey, said Totev.