{"id":13505,"date":"2017-07-20T12:21:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T12:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/almost-many-greeks-come-bulgaria-bulgarians-visit-greece\/"},"modified":"2017-07-20T12:21:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T12:21:05","slug":"almost-many-greeks-come-bulgaria-bulgarians-visit-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/almost-many-greeks-come-bulgaria-bulgarians-visit-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost as Many Greeks Come to Bulgaria as Bulgarians Visit Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\">Minister of Tourism: &#8216;Almost as Many Greeks Come to Bulgaria as Bulgarians Visit Greece&#8217;<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&#8221;According to official data, almost as many Greeks come to Bulgaria as Bulgarians visit\u00a0<b>Greece<\/b>&#8221;,\u00a0<b>Tourism<\/b>\u00a0Minister\u00a0<b>Nikolina Angelkova<\/b>\u00a0told\u00a0Bulgaria on Air\u00a0TV, cited by Novini.BG.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">In June-September 2016, around 500,000 Greeks visited Bulgaria and 570,000 Bulgarians visited Greece.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The comparisons between Bulgaria and\u00a0<b>Greece<\/b>\u00a0as tourist destinations are incorrect, the minister said, as the two countries are very different, with\u00a0<b>Greece<\/b>\u2019s coastline substantially exceeding the Bulgarian.<\/p>\n<p>In the first five months of 2017, 370,000 Greeks visited Bulgaria, the largest share of foreign tourists, while around 490,000 Bulgarians have so far visited\u00a0<b>Greece<\/b>, the second largest share of foreign tourists in their statistics.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister commented on the situation in our southern neighbor after the\u00a0<b>torrential rains<\/b>\u00a0there. &#8220;Extremely unpleasant situation The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, especially our Consulate General in Thessaloniki, follows in details everything happening there and we are \u00a0available to help \u00a0every Bulgarian citizen who is calling them for assistance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Angelkova expressed hope that the situation in\u00a0<b>Greece<\/b>\u00a0gets back to normal soon after the heavy rains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Tourism: &#8216;Almost as Many Greeks Come to Bulgaria as Bulgarians Visit Greece&#8217; &#8221;According to official data, almost as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[459],"class_list":{"0":"post-13505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sr-blog-bulgaria-news-nl","8":"tag-bulgarian-tourism-nl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}