{"id":122498,"date":"2017-01-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/bulgaria-visited-by-a-record-number-of-8-million-tourists-in-2016\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:37:19","slug":"bulgaria-visited-by-a-record-number-of-8-million-tourists-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/bulgaria-visited-by-a-record-number-of-8-million-tourists-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria visited by a record number of 8 million tourists in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Last year, Bulgaria was visited by approximately 8 million foreign tourists, more than the country&#8217;s population, according to data announced by the Minister of Tourism, Nikolina Angelkova.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This number confirms previous estimates that foreign visitors have exceeded the population of Bulgaria in the last 12 months, which, according to the most recent statistics, is about 7.1 million people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The minister also specified that about 400,000 foreign tourists spent Christmas and New Year in Bulgaria. The number of Bulgarians who spent their holidays in a winter resort was about 200,000.<\/div>\n<div><\/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>How many tourists visited Bulgaria in 2016?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bulgaria welcomed a record number of approximately 8 million foreign tourists throughout 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did the number of tourists exceed Bulgaria&#8217;s population?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the 8 million visitors surpassed the country&#8217;s population, which stands at approximately 7.1 million people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many foreign tourists visited Bulgaria during the winter holidays?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 400,000 foreign tourists spent Christmas and New Year in Bulgaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Bulgaria was visited by approximately 8 million foreign tourists, more than the country&#8217;s population, according to data announced by the Minister of Tourism, Nikolina Angelkova. This number confirms previous estimates that foreign visitors have exceeded the population of Bulgaria in the last 12 months, which, according to the most recent statistics, is about&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-122498","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\/122498","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=122498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122498"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=122498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}