site.btaLIK Magazine Managing Editor: Toughest Task Is Choosing What Does Not Make It into Issue

Sometimes the most difficult part of her work is the decision what should be left out of the current issue of LIK magazine, the magazine's managing editor Yanitsa Hristova said during the presentation of the latest issue of LIK magazine on Monday in Sozopol. The event, dedicated to the August issue of BTA's publication on literature, art, and culture, will be part of the "Price of Success" section of the forum.

“I have been part of the magazine team for almost four years now, and I would say that what we do is to gather the history of a given topic and present it from a contemporary perspective", she noted, adding that they do not always manage to include everything they want. "The first thing we didn’t manage to include in this issue is Aleko Konstantinov’s invitation, published in 1895, inviting tourists to climb Mt Cherni Vrah, which marks the beginning of organized tourism in Bulgaria,” Hristova emphasized.

She stressed that the thing that pains her the most is that they were unable to include an article from BTA Archives from January 1963, which tells about how young students from the tourism school helped a young mother and her child on the road on a snowy winter night. The students save her and her child, which is named Aleko, who afterwards becomes the youngest member of the Bulgarian Tourist Association.

"Unfortunately, you cannot read the news in our new issue, but we have included many other interesting publications,” Hristova said.

LIK has dedicated its August issue to the 130th anniversary of organzed tourism in Bulgaria. It highlights one of the emblematic initiatives of the Bulgarian Tourist Union, the “Get to Know Bulgaria – 100 National Tourist Sites” movement. The initiative spans a wide range of natural, historical, cultural, and archaeological landmarks, their number being 242 as of 2024, with each presented in LIK’s August issue.