The number of foreign tourists visiting Bulgaria is dropping, State Agency for Tourism head Anelia Kroushkova said.
The number fell by 3.85 per cent from May to June 2007, she said, as quoted by Focus news agency.
According to Kroushkova, the decrease resulted from the smaller number of tourists from neighbouring Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro.
Nearly 80 per cent fewer Serbians and 75 per cent fewer Macedonians visited Bulgaria, as compared to the 2006 figures.
The number of EU tourists in Bulgaria rose by 31.79 per cent in the first five months of 2007, in comparison to the same period in 2006. Asked whether this figure included Romanians, given that Bulgaria’s neighbour also joined the EU in January 2007 and therefore the basis for comparing the two years is not the same, Kroushkova said that border police did not supply statistics on the individual nationalities of EU visitors.
More than 9.5 per cent more Bulgarians went on holidays abroad in the first five months of 2007.
Bulgaria earned 336.7 million euro from foreign tourists between January and April 2007. Bulgarian tourists spent 389 million euro abroad.
The number fell by 3.85 per cent from May to June 2007, she said, as quoted by Focus news agency.
According to Kroushkova, the decrease resulted from the smaller number of tourists from neighbouring Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro.
Nearly 80 per cent fewer Serbians and 75 per cent fewer Macedonians visited Bulgaria, as compared to the 2006 figures.
The number of EU tourists in Bulgaria rose by 31.79 per cent in the first five months of 2007, in comparison to the same period in 2006. Asked whether this figure included Romanians, given that Bulgaria’s neighbour also joined the EU in January 2007 and therefore the basis for comparing the two years is not the same, Kroushkova said that border police did not supply statistics on the individual nationalities of EU visitors.
More than 9.5 per cent more Bulgarians went on holidays abroad in the first five months of 2007.
Bulgaria earned 336.7 million euro from foreign tourists between January and April 2007. Bulgarian tourists spent 389 million euro abroad.
