August 10 (SeeNews) - Total revenues from tourist overnights spent in Bulgaria rose by an annual 14.9% in June, reaching 188 million levs ($112.6 million/96.1 million euro), the country's statistical office said on Thursday.
Revenues from overnights spent by foreign nationals increased by 16.4% year-on-year in June, while revenues from Bulgarian tourists grew by 8.2%, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said in a statement.
The number of tourist overnights spent in Bulgaria rose 8.5% on the year to 3.9 million in June.
The largest increase in the number of overnights, by 10.5%, was registered by one and two-star hotels, which serviced 9.4% of the total number of overnights of international visitors and 42.3% of the overnights spent by Bulgarian tourists.
A total of 926,900 tourists stayed in accommodation facilities in Bulgaria in June, up 9.8% year-on-year.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)