{"id":120470,"date":"2018-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/bulgaria-8-4-million-foreign-tourists-most-from-romania-greece-germany-turkey-and-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:05:19","slug":"bulgaria-8-4-million-foreign-tourists-most-from-romania-greece-germany-turkey-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/bulgaria-8-4-million-foreign-tourists-most-from-romania-greece-germany-turkey-and-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria: 8.4 million foreign tourists, most from Romania, Greece, Germany, Turkey, and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In the first ten months of this year, 8.4 million tourists visited Bulgaria, an increase of 5% compared to 2017, with the most foreign visitors coming from Romania, Greece, Germany, Turkey, and Russia, announced the Minister of Tourism, Nikolina Angelkova.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the period January \u2013 September 2018, tourism revenues recorded from foreign tourists increased to 3.2 billion EUR, 7% more than in the same period of 2017.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The minister announced that in the summer months, Bulgaria was visited by over 5.4 million foreign visitors, marking the most successful summer season ever recorded by this state.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The official added that the main difficulty facing the Bulgarian tourism industry is the lack of qualified personnel.<\/div>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Which countries send the most tourists to Bulgaria?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The majority of foreign tourists visiting Bulgaria come from Romania, Greece, Germany, Turkey, and Russia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much revenue did Bulgaria generate from tourism in 2018?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Between January and September 2018, Bulgaria recorded tourism revenues of 3.2 billion EUR, a 7% increase compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the biggest challenge for Bulgaria&#8217;s tourism sector?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The primary challenge identified by the Bulgarian Ministry of Tourism is the shortage of qualified personnel in the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first ten months of this year, 8.4 million tourists visited Bulgaria, an increase of 5% compared to 2017, with the most foreign visitors coming from Romania, Greece, Germany, Turkey, and Russia, announced the Minister of Tourism, Nikolina Angelkova. In the period January \u2013 September 2018, tourism revenues recorded from foreign tourists increased to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-120470","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\/120470","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=120470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120470"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=120470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}