{"id":13579,"date":"2017-01-24T07:47:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T07:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/bulgarias-tourism-industry\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T07:47:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T07:47:07","slug":"bulgarias-tourism-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/bulgarias-tourism-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria&#8217;s Tourism Industry &#8216;Grew 11% Last Year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An increase in the number of\u00a0foreign tourists\u00a0visiting Bulgaria has boosted the sector&#8217;s overall growth in 2016, according to the estimates of a renowned think-tank.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As many as 8.4 million\u00a0<strong>foreign tourists<\/strong>\u00a0took trips to Bulgaria last year,\u00a0<strong>Rumen Draganov<\/strong>, who heads the Institute for Analysis and Assessment of\u00a0<strong>Tourism<\/strong>, has told Focus News Agency in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>His estimates surpass those of the\u00a0<strong>Tourism<\/strong>\u00a0Ministry, which earlier\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.novinite.com\/articles\/178266\/Bulgaria+Set+to+Record+8-Million+Tourist+Mark\">announced<\/a>\u00a0the 8-million mark would only be passed at the end of January if measured year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 17.5 million trips for\u00a0<strong>tourism<\/strong>\u00a0purposes were registered across Bulgaria last year, but the figure included domestic tourists, Draganov has added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Bulgaria] is an interesting destination as the correlation between price and quality of the Bulgarian\u00a0<strong>tourism<\/strong>\u00a0product is competitive,&#8221; Draganov has argued, citing as an evidence the big number of preliminary contracts signed for 2017 on accommodation across the country<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.novinite.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An increase in the number of\u00a0foreign tourists\u00a0visiting Bulgaria has boosted the sector&#8217;s overall growth in 2016, according to the estimates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[220,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-13579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sr-blog-bulgaria-news-es","8":"tag-bulgarian-economy-es","9":"tag-economy-es"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13579","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=13579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}