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Author: Lyubomir Alamanov I am using the tension surrounding Bansko and quickly recalling some basic principles in concession procedures. So, just for information: 1. A concession is a good tool for partnership between state and municipal administrations with private companies. 2. A concession is the provision of a state or municipal resource or property to a company called …

The entire story surrounding Pirin is filled with so many myths, misconceptions, and false claims spread by the radical wings of both disputing sides that I can't resist a long post addressing the most prominent among them. The lack of reasonable discourse on the subject is appalling, and the only one that passes through it is...

The life of Bansko residents is directly connected to the mountains - 60% of the municipality's economy is tourism, restaurants and entertainment and sports sectors. Nearly 47% of the workers find a living in these economic activities, with even the next largest employers (the furniture industry) and agriculture having a connection to the location of Bansko and Dobrinishte and the rest ...

Another winter ended with the end of another episode of the Punic War between the concessionaire of the Bansko ski area and the strange couple DSB-Greens. This year, the bacchanalia erupted around the adoption of the new management plan for Pirin Park. Before the eyes of Bulgarians, the two sides once again clashed over the now legendary gondola lift …

Or the story of how the far-right Bulgarian parties sided with the rich resorts against the poor municipalities. The Ministry of Environment and Water officially announced that an eco-assessment has never been done on a management plan for a Bulgarian natural or national park. Here we are talking about an external eco-assessment, since every draft plan for …

On Friday, a media storm erupted around a document signed by the acting Minister of Ecology (and around the Bansko resort), according to which the new Pirin Park management plan does not need an eco-assessment – just as no park management plan in Bulgaria has ever had one. An eco-assessment is being done …

Every winter, along with the Punic Wars around the second lift in Bansko, the first in Pamporovo and the zero lift in Vitosha, we hear the propaganda that there is no year-round tourism in the Bulgarian mountains. The understanding is instilled that in Bansko (Blagoevgrad), Pamporovo (Smolyan) and Borovets (Sofia region) some bad and stupid people invest in hotels and ski areas, …