Foreign tourists in Bulgaria

(for the period January - December 2004)

In  2004 totally 4 629 854 foreign citizens visited Bulgaria, by 14.38 % more in comparison to 2003, as 13,56 % of them visited the country aiming to have holiday and for tourist purposes as per the data of the World Tourist Organization and the European  Tourist Committee with the European Union. The growth of tourists from the European Union (excluding the newly admitted member-states) amounts to 23.90 % in comparison to the previous year, which makes this region of paramount importance to international tourism.

Data for the number of tourists in 2004 in states

Greece – 707 453 tourists (+29.17 %);
Germany – 565 337 tourists (+5.75 %);
Great Britain – 259,092 tourists (+62.60 %);
Macedonia – 223,031 tourists (-2.44 %);
Russia – 120,523 tourists (-0.67 %);
Serbia and Montenegro – 115,393 tourists (-2.50 %);
Republic of Czech – 102,045 tourists (+30.17 %);
Poland – 99,684 tourists (+61.25 %);
Sweden – 96,131 tourists (+36.43 %);
Israel – 79,172 tourists (+14.65 %);
Slovakia – 75,253 tourists (+17.74 %);
Finland – 58,463 tourists (+19.72 %);
Dania – 52,594 tourists (+23.15 %);
France – 48,634 tourists (+35.98 %);
USA – 39,276 tourists (+26.18 %);
Hungary – 33,028 tourists (+51.17 %);
Austria – 32,219 tourists (+38.79 %);
Turkey – 30,080 tourists (+13.92 %);
Belgium – 30,022 tourists (-6.69 %);
Ukraine – 29,793 tourists (-29.71 %);
Italy – 28,337 tourists (+15.28 %);
Holland – 25,874 tourists (+19.09 %);
Norway – 21,403 tourists (+37.15 %);
Switzerland – 20,085 tourists (+39.43 %).