Overnight tourist stays were down 1.0% year-on-year to 558,186 in October, the Statistics Office said in a statement.
The number of tourists staying in Slovenia in the first 10 months of 2008 rose 3.0% from a year earlier to 2,444,253. Overnight stays through October were up 2.0% on the year to 7,496,755 .
Details of Slovenian tourist numbers follow (y/y pct change in brackets):
October'08 | September'08 | |
Total tourists | 206,137(+4.0) | 252,126 (-5.0) |
- foreign | 126,985(-2.0) | 178,733 (-7.0) |
- domestic | 79,152(+14.0) | 73,393 (+3.0) |
Total tourist overnights | 558,186(-1.0) | 727,696 (-4.0) |
- foreign | 317,661(-7.0) | 469,285 (-7.0) |
- domestic | 240,525(+10.0) | 258,411 (+3.0) |