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Published on : Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Angelkova was sharing her thoughts at two consecutive meetings in Varna and Bourgas with representatives of national and local authorities and the private sector.
She explained that in June and July, over 2.7 million visits by foreign tourists were registered in Bulgaria and a there had been a two per cent rise in the number of overseas visitors staying in accommodations with at least 10 beds on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast in the three seaside regions of Dobrich,Varna and Bourgas.
The Ministry of Tourism had shown previously in the year that inbound tourism figures have a chance to drop by three to six per cent. Angelkova said that she expected that the final figures would be in the lower range.
From the beginning of this year to July, the total number of international tourist visits was more than 5.1 million, about 1.8 per cent lower than 2018, which had been a record year, Angelkova said.
She explained that there was a clear trend of a rise in the number of visits by Bulgarians to the country’s Black Sea, 12.7 per cent growth in stays at accommodation with 10 or more beds in June-July 2019.