November 12 (SeeNews) - Total revenue from tourist overnights spent in Bulgaria rose by 7.6% year-on-year to 164.2 million levs ($94.5 million/83.9 million euro) in September, the country's statistical office, NSI, said on Monday.
Revenue from overnights spent by foreign nationals increased by an annual 9.8% in September, while revenue from Bulgarian tourists edged up 0.4%, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said in a statement.
The number of tourist overnights spent in Bulgaria in September rose 2.6% on the year to 3.17 million.
The largest increase in the number of overnights, of 3.8%, was registered by four- and five-star hotels which serviced 73.5% of the total number of overnights of international visitors and 32% of the overnights spent by Bulgarian tourists.
A total of 835,800 tourists stayed in accommodation facilities in Bulgaria in September, up 4.8% year-on-year. The number of Bulgarian tourists increased 1.2% on the year, while the number of foreign visitors grew 7.8%.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)