After the nine months of the year, the arrivals of foreign visitors to Romania, according to customs, amounted to 7205.5 thousand, 10.2 percent more compared to the same period of last year, National Institute of Statistics (INS) informs on Monday.
Most of the foreign visitors came from European countries (92.8 percent). 56.7 percent of the total arrivals of the foreign visitors to Romania were from European Union Member States, out of which the most arrivals were from Hungary (30.6 percent), Bulgaria (27.4 percent), Germany (8.5 percent), Poland (7.3 percent), Italy (5.9 percent) and Austria (3.6 percent).
Also, the departures of Romanian visitors abroad, according to customs, amounted to 10222.0 thousand, 5.7 percent more compared to the same period of 2014. The Romanian visitors abroad mostly used the means of road transport, 79 percent of the total departures.
This September, the arrivals in the establishments of tourists’ reception amounted to 978.8 thousand, 18.5 percent more compared to September 2014. The arrivals of the Romanian tourists in the establishments of tourists’ reception with functions of tourists’ accommodation were 74.9 percent of the total arrivals, while the foreign tourists were 25.1 percent, weights close to those of September 2014.
As to the arrivals of the foreign tourists in the establishments of tourists’ reception, the highest weight had those coming from Europe (74.8 percent of the total of foreign tourists) and 87.7 percent of them came from European Union Member States, INS data show.
The overnight stays in the establishments of tourists’ reception amounted to 2343.6 thousand, 16.9 percent more compared to the same month of the previous year.
The average time of stay was 2.5 days for the Romanian tourists and 2.0 days for the foreign tourists.
Higher indices of accommodation places were registered by hotels (40 percent), tourist villas (21.9 percent), motels (19.1 percent), hostels (19 percent), inns and agro-tourist boarding houses (16.6 percent each) and holiday villages (14.8 percent).
At end-September, the arrivals in the establishments of tourists’ reception amounted to 7707.8 thousand, 17.3 percent more compared to the same period last year.