In the period from January –October 2017 tourists realized 1,149,721 tourists arrivals which represent the increase by 14.0% and 2,374,918 overnight stays which is increase by 12.8% as compared to the same period of 2016.
The number of domestic tourist nights increased by 4.0% and the number of foreign tourist nights increased by 16.5% 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 (51.4%) were realised by tourists from Croatia (10.6%), Serbia and Turkey by (7.6%), Italy (5.8%), United Arab Emirates (5.5%), Poland (5.2%), Slovenia (5.1%) and Germany (4.0%). Tourists from other countries realised 48.6 of tourist nights.
Regarding the average detention of foreign tourist stays, on the first place comes Malta with an average stay of 5.9 nights, Kuwait with 3.7, Ireland with 3.5 nights, Katar with 3.3 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 share of 92.2%.
(Source: bhas)
