7 Countries That Hate Tourists

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2. Bulgaria

Bulgarian tourism has been slowly on the rise since the country’s entrance into the EU, but it has been set back recently by outbreaks of E-coli and hepatitis in contaminated water along the Black Sea coast. As well, tourists have found themselves in the center of racist attacks, especially in big cities like Sofia and Varna, which culminated in 2012 with an attack on Israeli tourists at the Sarafovo Airport which killed 7 and injured 30.

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