In October alone, the number of tourists staying in Romania increased by 9.6% on the year to 642,500 and overnights rose by an annual 5.4% to 1.56 million, INS said in a statement.
Romania tourist numbers and overnights (y/y pct change in brackets):
Oct'12 | Jan-Oct’12 | |
Total tourists | 642,500 (+9.6) | 6,646,600 (+10.3) |
- foreign tourists | 156,500 (+12.1) | 1,449,100 (+10.0) |
Total overnights | 1,564,500 (+5.4) | 16,771,100 (+7.6) |
In 2011, the number of tourists staying in Romania increased by 16% to some 7.0 million, while overnights were up 12.2% to around 17.9 million.