July 12 (SeeNews) - The revenue from tourist overnights spent in Bulgaria in May totalled 75.6 million levs ($38.68 million/38.65 million euro), up 90.9% year-on-year, the country's statistical office said on Tuesday.
Overnights by foreign nationals generated 38.1 million levs of revenue in the fifth month of 2022, whereas revenue from overnights spent by domestic tourists reached 37.5 million levs, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said in a statement.
At roughly 1.26 million, the total number of tourist overnights spent in the country in May was 72.6% higher than in the same month last year. Of those, 606,900 overnights were spent by foreign tourists.
Four and five-star accommodation facilities accounted for 42.7% of the overnights spent by Bulgarian tourists and 78.2% of the overnights by international visitors in the review period.
The total number of tourists who stayed in accommodation facilities in Bulgaria in May increased by 41.2% on the year to 492,000, the NSI added. Foreign tourists arriving in May were 160,000, spending 3.8 overnights on average.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)