Bulgaria's revenue from tourist overnights rises 2.9% y/y in July

Revenues from overnights spent by Bulgarian tourists increased by 19.9% year-on-year in July, while revenues from overnights of foreign nationals edged down by 0.4%, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said in a statement.

The total number of tourist overnights spent in Bulgaria edged up by 0.1% to 5.95 million in July.

The largest increase in the number of overnights, by 2.0%, was registered by three-star hotels which reported 28.5% of total overnights spent by Bulgarian tourists and 27.4% of the overnights of international visitors.

A total of 1.30 million tourists stayed in accommodation facilities in Bulgaria in July, up 5.2% year-on-year.

(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)