Tourists from Albania Spend More Abroad than at Home
BalkanTravellers.com
During the first half of 2008, the deficit of tourist services amounted to 23 million euro, compared to a registered 10 million euro surplus for the same period last year, according to the data cited in a publication of the Albanian Shekulli newspaper.
The deficit is attributed to the fact that Albanian tourists’ expenses abroad, currently reaching 494 million euro, have increased by 28 per cent, while the income of the country has increased only by 19 per cent, reaching 471 million, for the first six months of the year.
This numbers, in turn, are a result of the 36 per cent increase in the number of Albanian travelers and the higher prices in the EU.
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Epicure
Serbia
Top 10 Restaurants of Central and Eastern Europe
5 June 2011| The top 10 restaurants of Central and Eastern Europe were announced tonight at a Dining Guide Food Show in Budapest. The list, which includes most of the Balkans, is considered to be a pre-selection. The announcement of a single winner will follow at the end of the year. Full Story
Curiosity Chest
Serbia
Serbia: Tito's Mausoleum in Belgrade
Whatever your opinion on communism, many people across Eastern Europe and the wider world have a romanticised view of the former Yugoslavia’s grand leader Josip Broz Tito. Full Story
Useful Reads
Serbia
The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History (2010) | By Jason Vuic
No other car, save perhaps the equally admired Skoda, has inspired as many jokes as the Yugo, the product of “cutting edge” technology from the former Yugoslavia which was ranked by US auto journalists as only the eighth most deadly car on the road. Full Story
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Serbia
EXIT Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia: Overnight Exile in the Fortress
Located roughly in the middle between Bulgaria's Black Sea and Croatia’s Adriatic coasts, which are both shaken by high-energy rock parties each July, Novi Sad hosts one of the most significant summer festivals on the Balkans – EXIT. As fans from all parts of the region start to gather in the town for for this year’s event, scheduled to take place between July 10 and 13, Mila Popova recounts about the time she spent at the festival last summer.
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A Perfect Shot
Koprivshtitsa Fair, Bulgara. Photographs by Neva Micheva
In Homo Urbanus Europeanus, exhibited May 9-24 in front of the National Theatre in Sofia, Jean-Marc Caracci presents his photographs of people in the urban environment of European capitals.
RED&WHITE SOFIA. On the 1st of March Bulgarians say goodbye to the winter. They buy each other red&white threads to carry around until they see a stork and spring can begin. Photography by Lode Desmet
BULGARIA D'OR: The Bulgarian countryside, patinated with the noble golden dust of the autumn. Photographs by Lode Desmet
360 degrees Bulgaria, an exhibition by photographer Alexandar Ivanov, is on display at the Sea Garden in Varna until August 28. It will be shown at Plovdiv’s Central Square from Sept 5.
The exhibition Photographs of a Trip Through Bulgaria by Hungarian photographer András Balla can be seen in Sofia's Hungarian Cultural Institute, at Aksakov 16 Street, until August 22
Instant Spring in Sofia | Photographs by Lode Desmet
Off-the-season Beauty of Bulgaria's Black Sea Coast | Photographs by Adelina Iliev
Bulgaria's Northern Black Sea Coast
Photographs by Albena Shkodrova
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