Tourist Trips and Tourism-related Expenditure of the Population in the First Quarter of 2013 (preliminary data)
23.05.2013 h.
In the first quarter of 2013, 550.3 thousand Bulgarian residents made tourist trips. The majority part (84.4%) of them travelled only in the country, 12.9% - only abroad and 2.7% - both in the country and abroad. Compared to the same quarter of 2012 the total number of the travelled persons aged 15 and over decreased by 12.3%, as a reduction was observed in the number of the Bulgarian residents travelled in the country - by 14.4%, while in the number of persons travelled abroad increased by 5.2%. The average expenditure per person for private trips both in the country and abroad decreased by 22.2% and 20.8% respectively. The average expenditure for professional trips per person in the country decreased by 3.4%, while abroad it increased by 72.6%.