Sponsors & Partners

Virtual 3IT Reality Ltd

www.virtual3itreality.com

Spectrum Gaming Group

Spectrum Gaming Group is an independent research and professional services firm serving public- and private-sector clients worldwide. Its principals have backgrounds in gaming operations, economic analysis, law enforcement, due diligence, gaming regulation, compliance and journalism. Spectrum, which publishes the award-winning Gaming Industry Observer newsletter, has offices in Atlantic City, Bangkok, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, Macau, Manila and Tokyo.
www.spectrumgaming.com

BULGARIAN HOTEL & RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION

The Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant Association was established in 1993 as a non-profit organization. The main objective of the association during the 15 years of its existence has always been to sustain the development of hotel and restaurant business as well as to support private enterprise and the tourism sector in Bulgaria as a whole. Among the scores of associate members of the association are leading Bulgarian companies, producers and partners in Bulgaria’s tourist industry.
BHRA works together with scores of state and public organizations in Bulgaria – the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works, the Ministry of Culture, the State Agency for Tourism, various parliament commissions, the National Tourism Council, the Bulgarian Tourist Chamber, the Bulgarian Association of Tourist Agencies, the Bulgarian Association for Alternative Tourism, the Bulgarian Association for Rural and Ecological Tourism, the Association of Tourism Operators and Tourist Agencies, the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Varna, the Council for Tourism, the Bulgarian Association for Balneological Tourism, the Tourist Association “Stara Planina” and the Bulgarian Association of Professional Cooks.
www.bhra-bg.org

Bulgarian Web Association (BWA) is a branch association, representing the interests of the web companies and professionals in Bulgaria. Now Bulgarian Web Association (BWA) is the only association with activities directed to the benefit and defense of legal entities and natural bodies, working on design, arrangement, organization, realization and hosting of Internet sites, web design and Internet advertisement. All the Bulgarian Web Association (BWA) activities are in service of the interests of the Bulgarian web market, operating in conditions of free economy.

 

National Association for SPA & Wellness Tourism /NAST/

The National Association for Spa and Wellness Tourism /NASТ/ is nationwide represented tourist association with non-economic goal, registered in the National Tourist Register of the Republic of Bulgaria. NAST is the first Spa Association in Bulgaria founded on 30.10.2004 in Velingrad by Spa Hotel Owners, as well as by main representatives of companies directly or indirectly involved in the Spa Industry, all of them sharing one and the same idea of establishing a clear Spa Concept in Bulgaria.

The NAST members are four and five-starts Spa Hotels and Resorts, Spa vacation villages, having the capacity of over 8 500 beds altogether, Spa Treatment Studios, Spa Centre Chains, know-how companies, Spa and Wellness Equipment producers and sales representatives , Spa cosmetics and wellness equipment and accessories, Spa experts and therapy consultants , and tour operators.

The Mission, Vision and Goals of NAST are as follows:

• To unify and represent the NAST members interests;

• To make Bulgaria a popular and attractive tourist destination in Europe and worldwide. To elate the prestige of Bulgarian Spa and Wellness Industry, to advance the spa and wellness industry as attraction for future investments and business partnerships;

• To create the most favorable climate and conditions for development and coordination of advancement of the Spa and Wellness industry and all economic activities related to the Spa world;

• To represent the mutual business interests of Spa and Wellness and related to that industry all economic activities and initiatives to the mass media and public institutions in Bulgaria, as well as on the international and global level with similar organizations in the country and abroad;

• To create best conditions for establishing partnerships on regional, national and international/ global level;

• To organize, materialize and also take part in national and international events and forums and enhance the cooperation between various countries in the field of Spa and Wellness Tourism.

GAME SPECTRUM Magazine

GAME SPECTRUM is an electronic magazine focused on the gaming and entertainment industry on the Balkans and in Eastern Europe. It covers various aspects of the gaming and entertainment business from new trends and technologies in the industry to regulatory issues and new market developments. Main objective of the publication is to inform timely and accurately all involved parties, including operators, manufacturers and players about news in the industry, present various opinions on current topics, introduce new products and companies. GAME SPECTRUM is oriented towards everyone involved in the gaming and entertainment business - casino operators, slot managers, gaming equipment manufacturers and distributors, legislative institutions, as well as everyone interested to keep up to date with the new developments in the industry. It is available at www.gamespectrum.bg

Russian Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions

is the organizer of the International trade shows for amusement industry professionals “RAAPA Expo” in Moscow, All-Russia Exhibition Center (VVTs), pavilion 69.
Every year RAAPA Expo gathers amusement industry professionals from all regions of Russia, CIS and foreign countries at one venue. Having gained for over 13 years a serious reputation among professionals, RAAPA Expo became a unique leading business platform in Russia which not only demonstrates the modern entertainment equipment and attractions but also provides an opportunity to estimate directions for the further development of amusement industry. Today RAAPA Expo is not only one of the world’s leading exhibition brands in the field of amusement industry, not only a platform where the policy of Russian amusement industry development is formed but also the example of the highly effective model of exhibition communications. For amusement industry specialists attending RAAPA Expo has become nowadays an element of image and professional culture.
raapa.ru

CASINO REVIEW Magazine

One of the leading quality monthly publications exclusively for the casino, gaming & gambling industry.
www.casinoreview-online.com

CASINO LIFE Magazine

A casino magazine for owners, operators, casino managers of European casinos and gaming equipment manufacturers.
www.casinolifemagazine.com

YOUR GUIDE Magazine

Printed and Online Buyer's Guides and Directories listing amusement machine suppliers, coin-op game manufacturers, gaming equipment suppliers, casino equipment suppliers, themepark equipment suppliers and kiosk products, machines and equipment.
www.yourguides.net

GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS Magazine

A division of Casino Connection International, GGB is one of the leading monthly gaming trade magazines that focus solely on the international casino gaming industry.
ggbmagazine.com

G3 Magazine

A pan-European high quality monthly magazine for the amusements and gaming operator. It sources games and gaming products from around the world and delivers them direct to you each month.
www.g3-magazine.com

INTERGAMING Magazine

Founded in 1995, InterGaming is one of world's leading international monthly magazines for the worldwide casino industry.
www.intergame.ltd.uk

YOGONET Magazine

Yogonet.com is a digital newspaper dedicated to the gambling industry. On its English and Spanish editions, it brings all the information related to this sector, such as casinos, bingos, lotteries, openings, tender processes, racetracks, tournaments and legislation.
www.Yogonet.com

CASINO INTERNATIONAL Magazine

Casino International is the specialised monthly magazine for the Casino Industry professionals all over the world. Its mission is to bring news, in-depth features, events and products direct to casino managers and operations, and to be the forum to discuss the major topics of the moment. Casino International has become the indispensable international business-to-business publication of the casino industry.
www.casinointernational-online.com

www.sitedeljuegoyazar.com

Webdeljuego.com is founded in 2005. It´s an Internet site, sponsored by the main Spanish National Associations: Confederation of Associations and Federations of Coin-Op Industry (COFAR) and the Spanish Association of Gaming Machine Manufacturers (FACOMARE), where you will find all the basic information of differents subsectors of the private gaming machine enterprises in Spain (Gaming Machines, Amusement, Bingos, Casinos, Poker, Betting … etc ).
www.sitedeljuegoyazar.com

EAAPA – Eurasian Parks and Attractions Expo

Annually EAAPA exhibitors present the newest equipment for parks, different entertaining outfit, including rides, playgrounds, sports grounds, equipment for water parks and many others International parks and attractions exhibition EAAPA usually takes place in February. Every year EAAPA increases the number and extends the geography of its exhibitors.

www.eaapa.com

Hot Games Magazine

Through participating international exhibitions in the whole world and monthly extensively distribute among operators, manufactories and distributors worldwide for many years, HOT GAMES has been a reputed product directory in the coin-op industry. HOT GAMES is your best way to get the information of the latest products and showcase your exquisite products to world-wide markets.

Hot Games Show, taken place in Taiwan, where the lastest and innovative products lead the most spectacular potential of business, is the most important international trade show for the amusement and gaming in Aisa.

Hot Games

GTI

Game Time International (GTI) is a publishing house of Haw Ji Co., Ltd. and was initiated in early 1995 in Taiwan. GTI Magazine and Game Time Encyclopedia are currently circulated in over 130 countries worldwide, featuring the worldwide coin-op climates, especially those in Taiwan, China, and other Asian countries. Entering the 14th year, our in-depth reports keep readers well informed of what's happening in the global gaming/amusement industry, review the market trends, interview big shots, and offer panoramic and precise predictions for the future. GTI is also the organizer of the annual GTI Asia Taipei Expo in Taipei, Taiwan and GTI Asia Hong Kong Expo in Hong Kong, China. GTI Asia Taipei Expo 2009 will be held on May 7 to 9 in Taipei, Taiwan; GTI Asia Hong Kong Expo 2008 will be held on September 25 to 27 in Hong Kong.

GTI

Jamma

Founded in 2001, the Italian web magazine Jamma.it has immediately become one of the most important tools for the Italian operators that want to stay informed. Technical services, forum, legislative news, such as fiscal and commercial matters, and a wide range of gaming sector news and analysis pertaining to the global market are daily offered to everyone visiting our home page.
Worldwide news are also provided in English language for foreign operators. Jamma Online English version is becoming more and more popular among European news websites. In the last few years Jamma Online headline has increasingly grown enlarging its number of daily contacts and its popularity among all operators and institutional bodies of the gaming industry. Jamma is further expanding at by the issue of the newborn Jamma paper monthly magazine that is providing even more detailed information on legislative aspects, trends and status of the worldwide gaming market.
Details: Daily Contacts: 1.700.000; Pages uploaded daily: 60.000; Users: 10.000 users visiting the site each day; Mailing List: 15,000 registered addresses; 5000 copies of Jamma magazine every month.

Jamma

Games World

Games World is the new mammoth circulation print/digital amusements monthly from the team that publishes Coinslot. Distributed to the entire ATEI database of 15,000 readers in 100 countries every month, Games World reaches the people our competitors can only hope for. Apart from the fact that with a minimum 15,000 copies each month it’s the biggest circulated title in the history of coin-op, that it is distributed to 100+ nations every month and that it’s the only publication that goes to the entire ATEI database comprising proprietors, CEO’s, Directors, senior managers and buyers – Games World is published by the same team that produces the award winning b2b titles Casino Review, Coinslot and Betting Business.

E-Play

Gambling Magazine E-Play is the only one of that kind branch periodical in Poland. The substantial contents of the magazine, which is already compounded of 92 colorful pages, are accompanied by the attractive layout. The current printed edition of the magazine comes out to 8 thousand copies- and is systematically growing. The magazine is available by subscription, in the numerous arcades and many casinos in Poland, and also in press salons. The monthly comes out also in the English language - full English version is available in the Internet.

E-Play

CASINO INSIDE

CASINO INSIDE is the Romanian magazine from the inside of the gaming industry which unfolds the secrets of the casinos, gaming rooms, gambling sites, the world of bets and the equipment producers, informing the reader on the latest trends concerning gaming.
CASINO INSIDE presents, in each number, the most en-vogue casinos across the country and all over the world, interviews with the most powerful people in this industry, the most captivating games, the hottest online casinos and world’s most important players.
CASINO INSIDE presents to you, each month, the most important events from the casinos’world, unique and exclusive interviews with personalities from the business world, artistic, sport and politics, in which they narrate how they’ve become players in the real world.
CASINO INSIDE wants to be a real support for the gaming industry from Romania by which everyone involved in this phenomenon, from the live casinos to equipment producers, from players to the online poker player, to find in our magazine a support in their relation with the public institutions as well as with the media and the public opinion in general.

CASINO INSIDE

Gioconews is a very full gaming network with a monthly review of 100 pages. Our branch office is in Italy but we have an international delivery because our magazine is a bilingual one, in Italian and in English version. We also have an online daily paper (www.gioconews.it). We are the point of reference for gambling industry, with also two other specific online daily news dedicated to the Poker and Casino worlds. Gioconews gives big attention to the gaming world and to the worlds connected with it (politics, economy, business, technology, design, fashion,...). For this reason you can find Gioconews at the most important gaming centers, the Italian casinos and the meeting at the European level and the main play appointments. Gioconews, besides the clients of the field, always paid attention first of all for the companies that connect their brands to the gaming, but also for who is trying to reach a very selected public for the social-economic-cultural level that declares an explicit interest for the gaming and entertaining world.

 

Sportal.bg

Sportal.bg is the leading Bulgarian sports information agency. Over 67 000 000 page view monthly and 1 600 000 unique visitors per month.

Our team Includes 40 highly skilled professionals, including a specialized TV section:

• Provides it’s corporate and end users with more than 300 news every day.
• Provides detailed analysis before, during, and after significant sports events.
• Provides 24 hours / 7 days a week coverage.

 

Is a new online edition for professionals in Travel, Leisure and Hospitality business. It is a part of Travel Consulting Ltd., a company for consultancy and PR in this sector in Bulgaria. We provide our clients Marketing and PR, Research and Consultancy since 2003. The results of our researches have published in different editions like Dnevnik Daily Newspaper, HOREMAG Magazine etc. We organise as well trainings for hotel professionals, inviting top managers, consultants and trainers from Europe and USA. On our website we provide accurate and balanced information; analyses about the future of the tourist sector; explore the problems and tendencies in the hotel and restaurant business and in travel destinations.

Our readers  and subscribers are:

» hotel owners and managers

» touroperators

» travel agents

» top and middle-rank managers

» local tourism authorities

» professional organisations

 

Kafene.bg

Kafene.bg is an online magazine for art, culture and free time. It started on 1st of July 2007. In the web site the visitors can see the program for the cinema and theater for the 4 of the biggest cities in Bulgaria. They can also find articles about the cultural life in Bulgaria, fashion shows, music, books, interviews and comments.
Kafene.bg is focused on the young, active people, who are looking for new emotions, interested in art.
Basically the visitors are between 21 and 30 years old(37%). Most of them (70%) are highly educated, 82% of the visitors are working people.

Diploma.bg

Diploma.bg is the first professionally developed online magazine for students in Bulgaria.
It started on 8th of December 2007. In the web site the visitors can find information about all universities, colleges, traineeships, seminars and job offers.
The web site is focused on the young and ambitious people, for which the educayion is importandfor their future career.

 

PokerNews is the world's leading Poker website. Among other things, visitors will find a daily dose of articles with the latest poker news, live reporting from tournaments, exclusive videos and an extensive online poker rooms section with detailed poker reviews, the best poker bonuses in the world and so much more.

 

BULGARIAN FEDERATION TOURNAMENT POKER is a legal non-profit entity - an association that works to create conditions for development and promotion of humanitarian principles of sport and sport ethics and the expression of personality through sports development and promotion of tournament poker as a sporting activity in Bulgaria;

Igrach.com

Igrach.com is the home of the Bulgarian poker community. Founded in 2006 the site now has over 20,000 registered members who enjoy the best poker promotions for Bulgarian players, the most thorough poker library, hundreds of coaching videos, and professional advise. Igach.com is the most influential media in Bulgaria when it comes to poker publicity.
Igrach.com

 

ICT Media is the leading publisher in the field of information and communication technologies in Bulgaria.

ICT Media product lines and activities:

PUBLISHING: Computerworld is the leading and the most influential weekly newspaper of the ICT business in Bulgaria.

CIO magazine was launched in February 2005 targeting the rapidly developing group of highly positioned IT executives, strategists and decision makers - CIOs in the leading industrial and financial enterprises and the Bulgarian Government.

The bimonthly magazine Networkworld is the only Bulgarian publication focused on networks and telecommunications - the fastest growing area in information technologies.

PC World addresses the home users and the SOHO market. It is the best-sold IT magazine in the country and one of the 10 biggest national monthly magazines.

EVENTS: ICT events and conferences are very important and ever growing part of the ICT Media activities. They attract attendees and prominent speakers from vertical segments such as banks, insurance companies, industry, trade and the

Government, as well as persons with professional interest in hot topics and developments, such as telecom solutions, security and storage solutions, ERP and CRM implementation.

ONLINE: ICT Media invests in technologies and services needed to provide our audiences with outstanding online information and community experiences. We support IDG.BG - the leading web portal for ICT news, prices and services in Bulgaria, as well as the web sites of the printed publications: www.computerworld.bg, www.cio.bg, www.pcworld.bg and www.idg.bg. Since 2001 we publish two newsletters: e-Daily delivers 25-30 hot ICT business news to some 3500 subscribers a day. ICT Market Weekly Review is the only Bulgarian online service in English, focused on the ICT business and developments in the country. It is sent weekly to more than 1000 subscribers abroad - all of them with a specific interest in the local market. In 2004 we launched 4 new technological newsletters: Networks and Telecommunications, I-Security, Programming, and PC World.

 

 

Romantika – the first love radio station in Sofia!

Romantika is a radio station for love! Our mission - love to be number 1 emotion for more and more people! Romantika is one of the most listened radio station in Sofia. Romantika is one of the few radio stations owned and run by Bulgarians. Romantika radio has broadcasted on 87.6 MHz for Sofia since June 2001. Romantika radio holds Bulgarian music. We believed that pop-folk style is closest to our ancient ant authentic Bulgarian music. We broadcast mostly Bulgarian music and the best music of Balkans and Russia. We’re the only station in Bulgaria with a musical rubric in each hour “The best Greek music”.

 

 

BG RADIO is the only station that broadcasts 100% Bulgarian music. BG Radio airs its programme in 17 Bulgarian towns, this way it ranks among the largest radio chains in the country. The musical selection of BG RADIO is based on the “golden Bulgarian songs” as well as the best new Bulgarian hits. The target audience of BG Radio are the listeners between 20 and 40 years old. The mission of BG Radio is to positively strengthen the Bulgarian spirit and culture. BG RADIO organizes the most influential music awards in Bulgaria - “BG Radio Annual Music Awards”.

 

 

Radio NRJ is oriented to the active people aged between 18 and 34, with a predominant accent towards the female audience within this age group. The format of the radio is “Hot Adult Contemporary” – playing an energetic music mix, The slogan of Radio NRJ says it all – “Hit Music Only!”. Radio NRJ – Bulgaria is a part of the largest radio chain in Europe, the French RADIO NRJ (ENERGY), which broadcasts in nine European countries.