site.bta1.1 Million Bulgarians Made Tourist Trips in Q4 of 2024

In the fourth quarter of 2024, 1.1 million Bulgarian residents made tourist trips, the National Statistical Institute said on Monday. The majority of them - 74.4% travelled only in the country, 20.5% - only abroad, and 5.1% - both in the country and abroad. Compared with the same quarter of 2023, the number of travellers aged 15 and over decreased by 7.2%.

Most Bulgarian travellers were aged 25 - 44 years – 445,800, or 41.2% of all travellers. The share of trips in the country dominated in all age groups, the highest (78.2%) being the share among persons aged 25 - 44 years. The share of residents aged 45 - 64 who travelled abroad (24.9% of the total travellers in this group) was the highest compared with other age groups.

The majority of tourist trips in the country (47%) and abroad (76.5%) were for holiday and recreation’ purpose.

Registered as independent were 1.3 million, or 86.6% of the total number of private tourist trips. The relative share of independent trips without booking was 93.4% in the country and 59.2% abroad.

In the expenditure structure by type, with the highest relative share on domestic and  outbound trips, was the expenditure on food - 35% and 30.1%.

The average expenditure on private trips per person was 278.38 BGN in the country and 714.00 BGN abroad.

At the same time, the average expenditure per person on a professional trip was 252.91 BGN in the country and 1 214.82 BGN abroad.

The National Statistical Institute data in the third quarter of the year 1.8 million Bulgarian citizens made tourist trips. The overwhelming majority - 72.3% - travelled only within the country, 20.8% - only abroad, and 69% traveled both within the country and abroad. Compared with the same quarter in 2023, the number of travellers aged 15 and over remained the same.