International tourism

Turkish hoteliers are hopeful that tourism activity in 2024 will be as strong as it was last year or even better.

Bulgaria has experienced a substantial surge in Polish tourist arrivals, with over 250,000 visitors recorded in 2022 alone, spanning from January 1 to September 10. Tourism Minister Zaritza Dinkova shared this encouraging data in an interview with the Polish media outlet Wasza Turystyka, highlighting the nation's allure as "the country of spa and wellness."

Representatives of the tourism industry are hopeful that domestic and international tourism activity will gather momentum around New Year's Eve.

Hotels are preparing to welcome Turkish holidaymakers as well as Europeans starting Dec. 24, while Russian tourists are expected to start to arrive in the county from Jan. 6.

After nearly three years of travel disruptions and complications, many countries have abandoned most pandemic restrictions. People are traveling internationally and there is plenty of idle demand spread around the world.

After a weak of the first half of 2021, international tourism rebounded during the northern hemisphere summer season, boosting results in the third quarter of the year, especially in Europe, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) said yesterday.

The Incoming Romania Association (AIR) welcomes the government's decision to lift the COVID ban on the entry of foreigners to the country. "This is a beneficial measure for all of us and is, in fact, the signal for the resumption of international tourism in Romania.

Almost a third of the world's destinations are currently completely closed to international tourists because of the pandemic, the UN tourism body said.

The Greek economy's great dependence on tourism and the global slump in tourism flows this year was the main reason observers put the country's economic contraction estimates for 2020 at 9-10%, a new report by Ernst & Young Greece notes.

Tourism arrivals in Greece showed an increase over the first quarter of the year that was almost twice the global average, according to data from the World Tourism Organization of the United Nations (UNWTO).

More than 1.1 billion leva are the revenues from international tourism in Bulgaria in the first four months of this year. They grow by nearly 11% compared to January-April a year ago, according to data from the Bulgarian National Bank, quoted by the Ministry of Tourism.