In the third quarter of 2013, 1 343.1 thousand Bulgarian residents made tourist trips. The majority part (85.3%) of them travelled only in the country, 11.1% - only abroad and 3.6% - both in the country and abroad. Compared to the same quarter of 2012 the total number of the travelled persons aged 15 and over rose by 11.4%, as an increase was observed in the number of the Bulgarian residents travelled in the country - by 14.2%, while the number of persons travelled abroad decreased by 2.3%.
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