Pamporovo builds up

Administrative and bureaucratic procedures and the ill-developed infrastructure at the Pamporovo mountain resort were the main obstacles for building companies, according to Stoyanov, manager of a building company.
Stoyanov said this on April 29 at the Real Estate Expo held in Sofia.

The same day, he announced that the construction of the Perelik Palace holiday complex in Stoykite, an area near Pamporovo, had started on April 29. The value of the complex, according to Stoyanov, was five million euro with area of 14 000 sq m; the scheduled opening date is November 2007.

Pamporovo is experiencing a visible boost in construction, with the resort becoming an attractive destination for foreigners, mainly from Great Britain, the Netherlands and Denmark. Most of the buyers, per Stoyanov, were foreigners from Great Britain and Ireland.

Over the past three years, the boarding capacity of Pamporovo has increased three times. Today, the resort has 15 000 people in its hotels, when the planned number in the general construction plan from 1999 was 5600. The architects said that the whole resort area should be declared a protected area by the state, as it is with the Black Sea resorts, so that there could be stricter measures in terms of building sites.

In an attempt to answer the critics, the same day the municipality of Smolyan voted on the general construction plan of the region. The planned capacity of hotel beds, according to the plan, in Pamporovo would be 20 000. The Smolyan region would have 5361 beds and Chepelare, which is under the jurisdiction of Pamporovo, would have 14 000 hotel beds.

The plan has to be approved by the minister of Regional Development and Public Works. According to architect Vesselina Troeva, head of the team working on Pamporovo’s construction plan, the resort would soon reach the capacity of the project Super Borovets at Rila Mountain, where the planned number of hotel beds is 21 000.

The increased number of tourists in Pamporovo would only mean an increase of the electricity and water demand, analysts said. That was why new power units had to be built in the resort. Until present, such utilities have been built in a nearby village. The resort’s new needed supply would definitely meet difficulties in terms of water, the architects said.

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