National Statistical Institute

"Statistics of tourism and business surveys" Department

Tsvetana Mitkova, Emil Stanchev

State Expert, Chief Expert

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

[email protected]

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 142

+359 2 98 57 261

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

· Nomenclature of countries and territories for statistical purposes;

· 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

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.

Assurance of quality of the Survey on Accommodation Establishments in accordance with Quality management policy and Quality management programme of NSI.

The results from the Survey accommodation establishment in the form of statistical estimates and distributions pass annually through an assessment of their quality. The estimate shall be formally published in the form of a quality report in Eurostat standardized form.

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.

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 are observed.

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.

Not applicable.

· Quarterly -till the end of 2011;

· Monthly - from the January 2012.

· "Statistical yearbook" - annual publication;

· "Statistical Reference Book " - annual publication;

· Brochure "Bulgaria" - annual edition.

Data on accommodation establishments are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading - Tourism - Accommodation Establishments: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/7060 and  in information system - INFOSAT: Topic Business Statistics, Subtopic Tourism: https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=226

Micro data are not disseminated.

The data from the Survey on Accommodation Establishments can be provided in other formats as an information service on request, according to the Rules for dissemination of statistical products and services by the NSI http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/564/.

Methodology of the survey

Not available

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. 

(http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:087:0164:0173:bg:PDF)

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 on Statistics and Rules for provision of anonymized individual data for scientific and research purposes (http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/575).