Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes - number of tourists

In 2024, Bulgaria's persons participating in tourism for personal purposes decreased by 6.6% compared to 2023, reaching 1,039,777.

Bulgaria accounts for 0.6% of the EU-27 total of 188,318,376.

Bulgaria ranks 20th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 26.8% (from 1,420,279 in 2019).

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