{"id":118801,"date":"2020-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/bulgaria-10-increase-in-tourism-revenue-in-2019\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:42:21","slug":"bulgaria-10-increase-in-tourism-revenue-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/bulgaria-10-increase-in-tourism-revenue-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria: 10% increase in tourism revenue in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Bulgaria&#8217;s revenues from foreign tourists increased slightly, by 0.4%, in 2019 to EUR 3.7 billion.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to recorded data, in December 2019, international tourism revenues exceeded EUR 165 million, an increase of 10% compared to the same month of 2018.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Also, for the whole of last year, approximately 9.3 million foreign tourists visited Bulgaria, an increase of 0.4% compared to 2018.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to data provided by the National Statistical Institute (NSI) of Bulgaria, in 2019, the most tourists came from Romania &#8211; 1.287 million, Greece (1.168 million), Germany (761,000), Turkey (649,000), North Macedonia (554,200), Ukraine (471,100), and the United Kingdom (470,000).&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profit.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Profit<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Which country sent the most tourists to Bulgaria in 2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Romania was the top source of tourists for Bulgaria in 2019, with 1.287 million visitors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was Bulgaria&#8217;s total tourism revenue in 2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bulgaria generated approximately EUR 3.7 billion from international tourism in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did tourism revenue perform in December 2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In December 2019, tourism revenue grew by 10% compared to the previous year, reaching over EUR 165 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgaria&#8217;s revenues from foreign tourists increased slightly, by 0.4%, in 2019 to EUR 3.7 billion. According to recorded data, in December 2019, international tourism revenues exceeded EUR 165 million, an increase of 10% compared to the same month of 2018. Also, for the whole of last year, approximately 9.3 million foreign tourists visited Bulgaria, an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-118801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118801"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=118801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}