In the period from January – November 2017 tourists realised 1,224,477 tourists arrivals which represent the increase by 13.7% and 2,523,545 overnight stays which is increased by 12.4% as compared to the same period of 2016.
The number of domestic tourist nights increased by 3.8% and number of foreign tourist nights increased by 16.1% as compared to the same period of 2016. Domestic tourist’s share of the total number of overnight stays was 27.8% and foreign tourists share was 72.2%.
Concerning the structure of foreign tourist nights, most of them (51.7%) were realised by tourists from Croatia (11.1%), Serbia (7.9%), Turkey (7.4%), Italy (5.8%), United Arab Emirates (5.3%), Slovenia and Poland by(5.1%) and Germany (4.0%). Tourists from other countries realized 48.3 of tourist nights.
Regarding the average detention of foreign tourist stays, on the first place comes Malta with an average stay of 5.9 nights, Kuwait with 3.7, Ireland with 3.5 nights, Katar with 3.3 nights, Iran with 3.2, France and Romania by 3.1 nights and the United Arab Emirates with 3.0 nights.
According to the type of accommodation facility, the highest number of nights was recorded in Hotels and similar accommodation with share of 92.2%.