In the period from January – December 2017 tourists realized 1,307.319 tourists arrivals which represent the increase by 13.7% and 2,677,125 overnight stays which is an increase by 12.3% as compared to the same period of 2016.
The number of domestic tourist nights increased by 3.8% and the number of foreign tourist nights increased by 16.2% as compared to the same period of 2016. Domestic tourists share of the total number of overnight stays was 28.5% and foreign tourists share was 71.5%.
Concerning the structure of foreign tourist nights, the most of them (48.3%) were realized by tourists from Croatia (11.8%), Serbia (8.1%), Turkey (7.3%), Italy (5.7%), Slovenia and UEA (5.3%). Tourists from other countries realized 51.7% of tourist nights.
Regarding the average detention of foreign tourist stays in our country, on the first place comes Malta with an average stay of 5.8 nights, Kuwait 3.7 nights, Ireland 3.5 nights, Iran and Qatar by 3.3 nights and France and Romania by 3.1 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)
