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26.5 percent increase in number of trips taken by Bulgarians year-on-year

Bulgarians are travelling more, National Statistical Institute data show.

1,149,800 Bulgarians travelled as tourists during the second quarter of 2017. Most of them - 83.6 percent travelled inside the country, 13.5 percent went abroad and 2.9 percent travelled both inside the country as well as abroad. Compared to the same period of last year this constitutes a 26.5 percent increase. 




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