{"id":13474,"date":"2017-09-28T08:34:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T08:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/foreign-visitors-sofia\/"},"modified":"2017-09-28T08:34:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T08:34:14","slug":"foreign-visitors-sofia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/foreign-visitors-sofia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofia is in Third Place in Europe in Growth of Foreign Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Sofia\u00a0is ranked third in Europe by the growth of\u00a0foreign visitors\u00a0for the period 2009-2016, according to the results of the Mastercard Global Visitors&#8217; Global Index, reports Chronicle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Global Mastercard index for the most visited cities is much more than a ranking of the 132nd most preferred for traveling cities<\/strong>. Based on the volume of visitors and their costs for the calendar year 2016, the analysis also gives a forecast for growth in 2017, key figures for the fastest growing destinations, and a deeper understanding of why people are traveling, how much and how they spend money in different countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The index again highlights Bangkok as the most visited city in the world. The number of arrivals in\u00a0<b>Sofia<\/b>\u00a0ranks 77th in the world &#8211; in front of traditional tourist destinations such as Colombo, Geneva, St. Petersburg, Casablanca and Cairo. The total number of visitors arriving in the Bulgarian capital for 2016 is 1 186 413 people. The growth of\u00a0<b>foreign visitors<\/b>\u00a0to\u00a0<b>Sofia<\/b>\u00a0in 2016 is over 18% compared to the previous year and the forecast for 2017 is for a new growth of 2%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Mastercard&#8217;s Global Master Card Index also reveals annual growth of 3.7% in the funds spent by visitors to\u00a0Sofia<\/strong>\u00a0for the period 2009-2016, with a total volume of USD 500 million in 2016, at USD 387 million in 2009 Nearly 20% is the\u00a0<b>increase<\/b>\u00a0in spending that international visitors have made in\u00a0<b>Sofia<\/b>\u00a0for only the last two years (2016th compared to 2015th).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Source: novinite.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sofia\u00a0is ranked third in Europe by the growth of\u00a0foreign visitors\u00a0for the period 2009-2016, according to the results of the Mastercard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[521],"class_list":{"0":"post-13474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sr-blog-bulgaria-news-es","8":"tag-foreign-visitors-in-sofia-es"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}