Tourist arrivals up 15 percent in first quarter
Arrivals reached nearly half a million by the end of March.
30 Apr 2019, 9:00 AM
Tourist arrivals reached 482,978 by the end of March, a 15 percent increase compared to the first quarter of 2018, according to statistics released by the tourism ministry this week.
Some 162,843 tourists visited during March, up 22 percent from the same month last year.
Bucking a downward trend since 2015, the number of Chinese holidaymakers registered a 5.6 percent growth in March. With 76,568 tourists, China remained the largest source country with a market share of 16 percent, followed by Italy (11 percent), Germany (7.7 percent), and the United Kingdom (7.5 percent).
With 269,619 tourists, traditional European markets accounted for 56 percent of arrivals.
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