April 12 (SeeNews) - The revenue from tourist overnights spent in Bulgaria shrank by 42.1% on the year in February, to 35.2 million levs ($21.4 million/18.0 million euro), due to the coronavirus crisis, the statistical office said on Monday.
The revenues from overnights spent by foreign nationals fell 69.5% on the year in February, while the revenues from overnights by Bulgarian tourists dropped 13.6%, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said in a statement.
The total number of tourist overnights spent in the country in the second month of 2021 went down by an annual 40.4% to some 627,700.
The largest drop in the number of overnights, by 47.6%, was registered by four and five-star accommodation facilities which served 42.1% of the overnights spent by Bulgarian tourists and 77.2% of the overnights of international visitors.
The number of tourists who stayed in accommodation facilities in Bulgaria in February decreased by 38.4% on an annual comparison basis to about 272,800.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)