[size=75:1fn5tlpq]novinite 27 January 2010

Bulgaria December Travel Figures Show Continuing Decline

The number of visitors to Bulgaria again fell in December 2009, and Bulgarians themselves made 24% fewer visits abroad during the month.

According to data released on Wednesday by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute (NSI), 557 000 foreigners visited Bulgaria, a drop of 7,3% compared with December 2008.

Trips abroad by Bulgarian citizens in December 2009 totaled almost 298 000, or 24,2% fewer than December 2008. In November, the annualized contraction was 21,8%, while in October it was 19,8%.

The only increase in trips abroad by Bulgarian citizens in comparison to the same month of the previous year was to Finland (183,8%). The largest decline in travel was to Ireland, which was visited by 98,6% fewer Bulgarians.

Spaniards accounted for the largest growth of visits to Bulgaria, at 13,5% of the total. Of the EU member states, Ireland showed the greatest decline, down by just over 25%.

Of all the European countries outside the EU, Norway registered the largest drop in visitors to Bulgaria, down by 39,5%, while the opposite trend - the greatest increase of foreign visitors - was by Ukrainians, up by almost 10%.

not suprising really ....considering the lack of flights to get here...

varnagirl wrote:

not suprising really ....considering the lack of flights to get here...

Which came first varnagirl, the chicken or the egg, in other words the passengers or the aeroplanes
Talking of aeroplanes, how is the ice rink, WOOPS, I meant Varna airport looking now

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Talking of aeroplanes, how is the ice rink, WOOPS, I meant Varna airport looking now "
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a lot better than sunday night , when wizz air flight abandend its first landing on touchdown and went round again ...then , after landing , told , braking on the taxying runnway was medium to poor and coming to a stop , they ended up with snow up to their engines under the wings......
as the pilot commented ..an internation airport should not have been open in those conditions....

with conditions operating like that (albeit, it was exceptional weather conditions ) and the lack of flights......the cancelling of flights by the different air companies and not informing their clients...and the prices....how does Bulgaria expect not to get a decline in visitors ??