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Number of Bulgarians traveling abroad and of foreigners visiting Bulgaria rising

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The NSI has reported that in October the number of visits of Bulgarians abroad and of foreigners to Bulgaria continued to grow. The trips of Bulgarians grew by 8.7% year-on-year to 439.0 thousand (compared to October 2016th), with the strongest increase marked towards Austria (32.5%), Serbia (18.9%), Romania (13.5%) and Macedonia (6.8%). The number of visits of foreigners to Bulgaria rose by 5.0% to 712.6 thousand. The share of citizens from EU countries has reached 56.1% of the total number of visitors, it was reported.



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