Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes - number of tourists

In 2019, Bulgaria's persons participating in tourism for personal purposes increased by 13.2% compared to 2018, reaching 1,420,279.

Bulgaria accounts for 0.8% of the EU-27 total of 183,346,268.

Bulgaria ranks 18th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 32.5% (from 1,072,023 in 2014).

Source: Eurostat dataset tin00185, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.