{"id":121982,"date":"2017-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/bulgaria-expects-over-11-6-million-foreign-tourists-this-year\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:21:59","slug":"bulgaria-expects-over-11-6-million-foreign-tourists-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/bulgaria-expects-over-11-6-million-foreign-tourists-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria Expects Over 11.6 Million Foreign Tourists This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Director of the Institute for Tourism Analysis, Rumen Draganov, stated that over 11.6 million foreign tourists are expected to visit Bulgaria this year, an 11% increase compared to last year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to data from the Bulgarian Ministry of Tourism, in recent years, the number of Romanian tourists in Bulgaria has reached 1 million per year, while the number of Bulgarians visiting Romania is approximately 300,000 per year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In March, the Bulgarian Minister of Tourism, Stela Baltova, stated that the authorities in Sofia expect a 10-11% increase in the number of Romanian tourists this year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economica.net\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Economica<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>How many foreign tourists does Bulgaria expect this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bulgaria expects over 11.6 million foreign tourists, representing an 11% increase from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many Romanian tourists visit Bulgaria annually?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Approximately 1 million Romanian tourists visit Bulgaria every year, according to the Bulgarian Ministry of Tourism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the expected growth for Romanian tourism in Bulgaria?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Authorities expect a 10-11% increase in the number of Romanian tourists visiting Bulgaria this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of the Institute for Tourism Analysis, Rumen Draganov, stated that over 11.6 million foreign tourists are expected to visit Bulgaria this year, an 11% increase compared to last year. According to data from the Bulgarian Ministry of Tourism, in recent years, the number of Romanian tourists in Bulgaria has reached 1 million per&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-121982","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\/121982","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=121982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121982"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=121982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}