Trips of Bulgarians Abroad Inch Up 3.8% in June 2011
Trips of Bulgarians abroad came in at 328.8 thousand in June 2011, registering a 3.8% increase on the year, according to the country's National Statistical Institute.
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Trips of Bulgarians abroad came in at 328.8 thousand in June 2011, registering a 3.8% increase on the year, according to the country's National Statistical Institute.
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The number of Bulgarian and foreign tourists, who have visited Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv, has increased significantly.
As a tourist destination, Bulgaria participates in the redistribution of tourist flows regardless of where the negative processes and crisis situations occur, but over the past years Bulgaria has been attracting increasingly low-income tourists, according
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