National Statistical Institute

"Statistics of tourism and bussines surveys" Department

Lidia Sandeva

State Expert

2, P. Volov Str., 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 681

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Arrivals of visitors, nights spent, revenues from nights spent, bed-places and available bed-nights, number of accommodation establishments.

· Classification of Territorial Units for Statistical Purposes in Bulgaria (NUTS);

· Unified Classification of Administrative-Territorial and Territorial Units (UCATTU).

All accommodation establishments with 10 and more bed-places - hotels, camping sites, other accommodation establishments (holiday settlements, mountain chalets, pravite flats, rest houses, bungalows and other short-time accommodation).

Arrivals and nights spent by Bulgarian and foreign residents, bed-places and available bed-nights, revenues from nights spent by Bulgarian and foreign residents.

Accommodation establishment

All categorized accommodation establishments with 10 and more bed-places in use.

The territory of Republic of Bulgaria.

· Quarterly - from the first quarter of 2008 till the fourth quarter of 2011;

· Monthly - from January 2012;

· Annually - from 2008.

2008

Number, BGN

· Quarter - till the end of 2011;

· Month - since January 2012;

· Year.

Till the end of 2011 - Directive 95/57 EC;

Since January 2012 - Regulation 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism and Commission implementing Regulation 1051/2011 implementing Regulation 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism, as regards the structure of the quality reports and the transmission of the data.

Not applicable

· Law on Statistics;

· Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.

Individual data are not published in accordance with article 25 of the Law on Statistics. The publishing of individual data can be performed only in accordance with article 26 of the same law.

The date for publishing of statistical information is indicated in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. The statistical information on the activity of the accommodation establishments is published monthly: a month after the reference period on the website of the NSI.

The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

The data are published on the NSI website, section Domain statistics - Tourism in accordance with the Law on Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice respecting the professional independence and aimed at objectivity, transparency and equal treatment of all consumers.

· Quarterly -till the end of 2011;

· Monthly - from the January 2012.

· Quarterly -till the end of 2011;

· Monthly - from the January 2012.

• Statistital Reference Book;
• Statistical Yearbook.

Data on accommodation establishments are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Domain statistics - Tourism - Accommodation Establishments: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/7060

Micro data are not disseminated.

Not applicable

Methodology of the survey

Not available.

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The users are the Council of Ministers, Ministry of Tourism, the districts? and municipalities? authorities, tourist organizations, science organizations, international organizations and others.

The users satisfaction survey is not carried out.

All data according to Regulation 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism are provided.

The statistical survey is exhaustively.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

The data are submitted to Eurostat 2 months after the reference months according to Commission implementing Regulation 1051/2011 implementing Regulation 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism, as regards the structure of the quality reports and the transmission of the data.

The publication dates by point 15.1 are observed.

All indicators are camparable by years, statistical regions, districts and municipalities.

The data are elaborated according to the administrative structure of the Republic of Bulgaria as of 31.12. of reference year.

The data are calculated by common methodology and are comparable by years.

Not applicable.

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Not applicable.

All categorized accommodation establishments with 10 and more bed-places in use.

• Quarterly -till the end of 2011.
• Monthly - from the January 2012.

Exhaustively.

Not applicable.

The data are aggregated to the level of municipalities, districts and total for the country.

Not applicable.