nir-vana innovation network

This Bulgarian non-profit organization is focused on supporting local food revival and tourism development in rural areas of the country. It offers exclusive experimental tours in Bulgarian villages and performs activities, such as exploration of authentic regions and destinations with touristic potential, reviving forgotten traditional foods, promoting local customs, and training local communities to offer quality touristic services. The organization is founded in 2012 and since then it is developing as a social enterprise, thus reinvesting all its revenues in its not-for-profit cause. Aiming to promote the reviving of Bulgarian rural areas the company organizes rural tours across the country, providing adventure encounters with local people, exploring authentic traditional cuisine, organizing culinary workshops with guests, visits to farms and artisans, organizing cultural programs with the locals, walking tours and nature sight-seeing and a variety of other rural experiences. Mostly individual tourists and small groups are visitors to the organization's tours. All meals, included in the dining are cooked with organic ingredients and based on traditional recipes of the visited area. The company is already well-established in the local market and has a great knowledge of the rural tourism sector, thus attempting to extend its business with foreign visitors. Therefore, the organization is looking for reliable foreign travel agencies and tour operators that are interested in cooperation under a commercial agreement.