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World Tourism Day

This year’s World Tourism Day, held on 27 September, will be focused on Sustainable Tourism – a Tool for Development. Celebrated in line with the 2017 International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, the Day will be dedicated to exploring the contribution of tourism to the Sustainable Development Goals.

Volunteers and employees of Rila Monastery Nature Park took part in the initiative "Let's Clean Bulgaria"

For the seventh  year the Rila Monastery Nature Park Directorate is a partner in the campaign "Let's Clear Bulgaria Together!", in which the Rila Mountain Society of Rila, as well as visitors to the Park actively took part.

Let's Clean Bulgaria together

Directorate of the Rila Monastery Nature Park at the Forestry Agency organizes cleaning of the park. The event will take place on 16.09.2017 with an opening time of 9:00. The assembly point is in front of the building of Rila Municipality. The initiative is open for every nature lover who wants to take care of its purity. The Park Directorate provides gloves and sacks for all volunteers. Rila Municipality will take care of the collection of collected waste.

Thousands of tourists on the Cherni Vrah

And this year, as every one on the last Sunday of August, thousands of tourists from all over the country gathered at Cherni Vrah to celebrate 122 years of organized tourist movement in Bulgaria. The organizer of the event was the Bulgarian Tourist Union with the support of the Vitosha National Park, tourist companies from all over the country and tourists. http://park-vitosha.org