More than 11 500 000 tourists visited Bulgaria in 2017

11 596 170 tourists visited Bulgaria in 2017, which is 9.5% or 991 774 more than in 2016. Like in the previous year, tourists from Romania (17%) came in the first place, followed by tourists from Turkey (12 %) on the second and Greece (11%) on the third place. For more information on countries, see the table below.

№	Countries	Q-ty	(%)
1	Romania	1 943 436	16,76%
2	Turkey	1 437 276	12,39%
3	Greece	1 272 997	10,98%
4	Germany	1 046 219	9,02%
5	Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	583 026	5,03%
6	Russia	565 754	4,88%
7	Serbia	541 303	4,67%
8	Poland	424 724	3,66%
9	Ukraine	388 645	3,35%
10	United Kingdom	352 054	3,04%
11	France	231 348	2,00%
12	Austria	216 986	1,87%
13	Israel	209 304	1,80%
14	Czech Republic	209 218	1,80%
15	The Netherlands	183 755	1,58%
16	Italy	177 250	1,53%
17	Belgium	152 739	1,32%
18	Hungary	111 405	0,96%
19	United States of America	90 963	0,78%
20	Spain	89 155	0,77%
21	Other EU countries	84 774	0,73%
22	Slovakia	81 318	0,70%
23	Denmark	67 502	0,58%
24	Sweden	56 739	0,49%
25	Norway	51 142	0,44%
26	Switzerland	34 280	0,30%
27	Finland	33 533	0,29%
28	Ireland	31 617	0,27%
29	Croatia	29 331	0,25%
30	Slovenia	25 178	0,22%
31	Cyprus	24 969	0,22%
32	Canada	19 113	0,16%
33	Portugal	17 440	0,15%
34	Japan	14 898	0,13%
35	Malta	3 984	0,03%
36	The rest of the world	792 792	6,84%
Total		11 596 167	100%
National statistical institute Republic of Bulgaria