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In June 2016, property owners' daily rental income rose by 28.6% year on year to 163.7 million lev. Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute published these figures.
Overnight stays in registered accommodation, including hotels, motels and campsites, reached 3.58 million in June 2016, 23.2% above the previous year's level.
Registered short-stay accommodation properties numbered 2.756 thousand during the period, with 125.8 thousand rooms and 279.5 thousand beds.
Compared with June 2015, short-stay rooms increased by 0.9% and beds by 3.9%.
Hotel room occupancy in June 2016 was 44.8%, up by 6.6% from the corresponding period of the previous year.
The increase in overnight stays in Bulgarian hotels is understandable and results from growing foreign visitor numbers in the 2016 tourism season.
Source: Novinite.com
