In the period from January –September 2017 tourists realized 1,025,975 tourists arrivals which represent the increase by 13.7% and 2,136,036 overnight stays which is an increase by 12.6% as compared to the same period of 2016.
The number of domestic tourist nights increased by 4.0% and number of foreign tourist nights increased by 16.1% as compared to the same period of 2016. Domestic tourist’s share of a total number of overnight stays was 27.2% and foreign tourists share was 72.8%. Concerning the structure of foreign tourist nights, most of them (51.3%) were realised by tourists from Croatia (10.2%), Serbia (7.7%), Turkey (7.6%), United Arab Emirates and Italy by (5.8%), Poland (5.6%), Slovenia (4.7%) and Germany (3.9%). Tourists from other countries realized 48.7% of tourist nights.
Regarding the average detention of foreign tourist stays, on the first place comes Malta with an average stay of 6.1 nights, Kuwait with 3.7, Ireland with 3.5 nights, Katar with 3.4 nights, France and Iran by 3.2, Romania with 3.1 nights and the United Arab Emirates with 3.0 nights.
According to the type of accommodation facility, the highest number of nights was recorded in Hotels and similar accommodation with the share of 92.2%.
(Source: bhas)
