Tourist Trips and Tourism-related Expenditure of the Population in Fourth Quarter of 2020 (preliminary data)

In the fourth quarter of 2020, during the continuing epidemic situation in the country, 471.8 thousand Bulgarian residents made tourist trips. The majority - 95.4% of them travelled only within the country, 3.9% - only abroad and 0.7% - both in the country and abroad. The total number of the travelled persons aged 15 and over was by 63.8% less compared to the same quarter of 2019, as a collapse in the number of the Bulgarian residents travelled in the country - by 57.4%, as well as in the number of persons travelled abroad by 91.7% was observed. As regards the number of persons travelled both in the country and abroad, the drop was by 86.5%.