In September alone, the number of tourists staying in Romania increased by 5.5% on the year to 726,200 and overnights rose by an annual 2.9% to some 1.85 million, INS said in a statement.
Romania tourist numbers and overnights (y/y pct change in brackets):
Sept'12 | Jan-Sept’12 | |
Total tourists | 726,200 (+5.5) | 6,004,200 (+10.4) |
- foreign tourists | 174,000 (+2.2) | 1,292,600 (+9.8) |
Total overnights | 1,850,700 (+2.9) | 15,206,600 (+7.8) |
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.