Arrivals and overnight stays in tourist accommodation structures recorded, in the first nine months of 2014, 6.1% and 5.7% increases, respectively, compared to the corresponding period of 2013, according to the data that the National Statistics Institute released on Monday. From January 1 to September 30, 2014, as many as 6.569 million arrivals in tourist accommodation structures were recorded. Of the total number of arrivals, Romanian tourists’ arrivals in the relevant accommodation structures represented, in that period, 77.5%, whilst foreign tourists accounted for 22.5%, shares close to those in the period January 1 – September 30, 2013. Most foreign tourists were from Europe (77.5% of total foreign tourists), and of these 85.7% were from European Union countries.
