Accommodation establishments - May 2025

Accommodation establishments - May 2025

In May 2025, 2 658 accommodation establishments - hotels, motels, camping sites, mountain chalets and other establishments for short-term accommodation, with 10 or more bed-places, functioned in the country (Annex, Table 1), with 106.9 thousand rooms and 237.1 thousand bed-places in them. In comparison with the same month of the previous year, the number of accommodation establishments increased by 1.7%, and the bed-places in them - by 1.5%.

The total number of nights spent was 1 532.2 thousand, or 7.4% more in comparison to a year earlier. The nights spent by Bulgarian residents were 807.5 thousand and by non-residents - 724.7 thousand.

In 4 and 5-star accommodation establishments were realized 80.0% of the total number of nights spent by non-residents and 47.1% - by Bulgarian residents. In those with 3 stars were spent 11.7% of the nights by non-residents and 25.1% - by Bulgarian residents, while in those with 1 and 2 stars they were 8.3% and 27.8%, respectively (Figure 1).

The number of arrivals[1] increased by 7.8% compared to the same month in 2024, and reached 658.9 thousand, as an increase by 10.2% for Bulgarian residents and by 4.2% for non-residents was reported. The Bulgarian residents were 408.1 thousand and spent 2.0 nights on average. The arrivals of non-residents were 250.8 thousand and had 2.9 nights on average, as 78.1% of them spent nights in accommodation establishments with 4 and 5 stars      (Figure 2).

[1] According to instructions from Eurostat, the refugees from Ukraine are not included in the survey.

The total occupancy of the bed-places was 22.0% and it increased by 1.1 percentage points compared to a year earlier. The highest occupancy of the bed-places was in 4 and 5-star accommodation establishments - 24.9%, followed by those with 3 stars - 20.9%, and with 1 and 2 stars - 16.5% (Figure 3).

 

The total revenues from nights spent increased by 15.7%, compared to the same month of the previous year, and reached 134.2 million BGN, as 68.8 million BGN were from non-residents and 65.4 million BGN - from Bulgarian residents (Figure 4).

Methodological notes

Since 2012, the statistical survey on accommodation establishments has been carried out monthly in compliance with the Regulation 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism and the Regulation 1051/2011 of the Commission 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.

All categorized hotels, camping sites and other types of accommodation establishments with 10 or more bed-places in use during the reporting period are included in the observation.

The indicator other accommodation establishments includes holiday settlements, hostels, guest houses, bungalows, rest houses, mountain chalets, private rooms and flats and other establishments for short accommodation.

Available Bed Capacity is the maximum number of bed-places, offered for each day of the reference month.

The revenues from nights spent in accommodation establishments include the sums paid by the guests, without the extra services.

 

Annex

Table 1

Activity of accommodation establishments in May 2025 [1]
Districts Establishments - in numbers Bed-places - in numbers Available bed-nights - in numbers Nights spent - in numbers Arrivals in accommodation establishments - in numbers Revenues from nights spent - Thousand BGN
Total Of which: By non-residents Total Of which: Non-residents Total Of which: By non-residents
Total 2 658 237 082 6 954 083 1 532 226 724 742 658 863 250 790 134 158 68 749
Blagoevgrad 171 14 746 440 336 100 604 15 671 44 834 6 851 10 701 1 945
Burgas 267 69 454 1 964 793 333 774 239 587 95 464 53 774 24 259 17 146
Varna 224 42 197 1 209 577 223 744 159 079 80 824 47 573 19 847 14 649
Veliko Tarnovo 172 5 707 176 129 36 918 10 834 23 397 7 692 2 351 833
Vidin 31 1 036 31 857 7 531 1 199 5 338 851 511 96
Vratsa 40 1 383 42 376 12 147 1 823 5 879 476 623 108
Gabrovo 70 3 390 105 090 19 617 3 364 9 555 820 1 176 262
Dobrich 91 13 791 383 656 71 231 47 436 23 116 12 819 7 250 4 922
Kardzhali 77 2 284 69 258 13 691 1 039 8 665 684 885 68
Kyustendil 86 2 934 87 934 18 622 2 497 11 240 1 476 1 620 223
Lovech 122 4 437 134 330 23 262 1 237 12 718 771 1 698 81
Montana 34 1 515 47 780 7 927 937 4 036 549 500 66
Pazardzhik 120 7 957 249 705 77 564 5 931 33 189 1 881 7 356 647
Pernik 8 395 12 245 3 147 376 1 891 207 226 34
Pleven 31 1 781 55 211 15 503 2 597 8 836 1 311 969 221
Plovdiv 232 13 098 406 813 132 447 35 839 66 998 17 710 10 927 3 357
Razgrad 18 664 20 584 4 493 566 2 215 260 284 51
Ruse 60 2 370 72 547 19 071 4 796 11 703 2 880 1 349 413
Silistra 30 858 26 598 5 187 730 3 506 385 283 48
Sliven 50 1 699 52 573 9 030 1 637 5 425 765 685 171
Smolyan 190 8 687 238 249 36 579 2 189 17 514 1 049 2 566 161
Sofia 86 6 916 208 994 32 203 4 103 17 026 1 959 2 926 485
Sofia (stolitsa) 178 17 152 526 286 219 269 153 319 114 533 74 242 26 281 20 519
Stara Zagora 64 5 361 166 171 58 309 7 480 23 313 2 617 5 424 631
Targovishte 14 545 16 895 3 376 620 2 198 287 235 49
Haskovo 97 4 237 131 967 34 054 17 966 17 750 10 005 2 386 1 407
Shumen 76 1 769 54 777 9 836 1 061 5 881 598 621 86
Yambol 19 719 21 352 3 090 829 1 819 298 219 70
[1] In use.
 

 

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Accommodation Establishments