Overnight stays in Vratsa have registered a 13% growth for the first five months of 2016, their total number being 34 000 for the entire region’s territory. The region has a lot to show to tourists and event tourism can give a fresh boost to the sector’s development. Thus said the Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova during the opening of the Todorka’s Sun Ancient Cultures Festival, which was held between 22 - 24 July in the Vologa locality near the village of Ohoden.
The Todorka’s Sun Ancient Cultures Festival is organized by Vratsa Chamber of Commerce and Industry and aims to preserve North-West’s cultural-historical heritage and promote the Bulgaria-Romania cross-border region as a place of long-standing history and rich traditions. The event is carried out under a project entitled “Danube – I can hear you and will ever forget you, I can see you and will remember you, I can replicate you and understand you” and is funded under the Romania Bulgaria Interreg V-A Program. Art groups, archeologists, and historians from Bulgaria, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, and Albania took part in the festival’s third edition.