Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes - number of tourists

In 2021, Bulgaria's persons participating in tourism for personal purposes increased by 2.3% compared to 2020, reaching 873,293.

Bulgaria accounts for 0.6% of the EU-27 total of 152,946,667.

Bulgaria ranks 18th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 15.0% (from 1,027,332 in 2016).

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