Poll: Summer Tourist Season Assessed in Rather Positive Terms Despite Higher Expectations
NW 15:18:01 19-10-2020
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110 ECONOMY - TOURISM - PANDEMIC - POLL
Poll: Summer Tourist Season Assessed
in Rather Positive Terms Despite
Higher Expectations
Sofia, October 19 (BTA) - The outgoing summer season is assessed in rather positive terms despite the higher expectations, and competition abroad has made Bulgarian tourists more fastidious, Gallup International found in a poll taken jointly with the National Board of Tourism among 1,000 adult Bulgarians by telephone between October 2 and 6 as part of Gallup's traditional polling programme.
Despite the obvious hardships, most Bulgarians took a summer holiday despite earlier plans to skip it. Respondents give part of the credit to the Tourism Ministry's publicity campaign during the campaign.
Half of those polled saw tourist advertisements of Bulgaria in recent months, 77.7 per cent believe that more publicity is needed, whereas 19.1 per cent doubt that more commercials can boost domestic tourism.
Respondents attribute the increased number of holidaymakers in Bulgarian resorts both to publicity and to the COVID-related restrictions on travel to Greece and nearly all other international destinations.
While 11.6 per cent of Bulgarians planned a seaside vacation in Bulgaria in May 2020, 22.2 per cent or over 1.2 million people actually spent their holidays there. Similarly, 4.3 per cent planned a mountain vacation in Bulgaria and 8.4 per cent did go. Conversely, 5.1 per cent planned vacations abroad and only 2.7 per cent or over 150,000 people implemented them.
As many as 29.7 per cent of Bulgarians used some kind of tourist service this past summer, while only 19.6 per cent had planned it.
Of those who vacationed in Bulgaria, the vast majority (69.2 per cent) said it was their first choice, whereas 26.3 per cent said they had wanted to holiday abroad but were forced by the pandemic to change their plans.
On a scale of 1 to 5, those who took a holiday in Bulgaria give a grade of 4 to prices, quality and COVID-safety measures.
Those who vacationed abroad gave slightly higher grades to prices, quality of beach services and COVID-safety measures.
Some 70 per cent of respondents believe that Bulgarian summer tourism has a good or very good potential.
Of those who skipped holidays this past summer, nearly half said the issue was irrelevant to them, as many had financial considerations and slightly over a third feared COVID-19. The total adds up to more than 100 per cent because this was a multiple-choice question. RI/LN
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LG1516NW.111
110 ECONOMY - TOURISM - PANDEMIC - POLL
Poll: Summer Tourist Season Assessed
in Rather Positive Terms Despite
Higher Expectations
Sofia, October 19 (BTA) - The outgoing summer season is assessed in rather positive terms despite the higher expectations, and competition abroad has made Bulgarian tourists more fastidious, Gallup International found in a poll taken jointly with the National Board of Tourism among 1,000 adult Bulgarians by telephone between October 2 and 6 as part of Gallup's traditional polling programme.
Despite the obvious hardships, most Bulgarians took a summer holiday despite earlier plans to skip it. Respondents give part of the credit to the Tourism Ministry's publicity campaign during the campaign.
Half of those polled saw tourist advertisements of Bulgaria in recent months, 77.7 per cent believe that more publicity is needed, whereas 19.1 per cent doubt that more commercials can boost domestic tourism.
Respondents attribute the increased number of holidaymakers in Bulgarian resorts both to publicity and to the COVID-related restrictions on travel to Greece and nearly all other international destinations.
While 11.6 per cent of Bulgarians planned a seaside vacation in Bulgaria in May 2020, 22.2 per cent or over 1.2 million people actually spent their holidays there. Similarly, 4.3 per cent planned a mountain vacation in Bulgaria and 8.4 per cent did go. Conversely, 5.1 per cent planned vacations abroad and only 2.7 per cent or over 150,000 people implemented them.
As many as 29.7 per cent of Bulgarians used some kind of tourist service this past summer, while only 19.6 per cent had planned it.
Of those who vacationed in Bulgaria, the vast majority (69.2 per cent) said it was their first choice, whereas 26.3 per cent said they had wanted to holiday abroad but were forced by the pandemic to change their plans.
On a scale of 1 to 5, those who took a holiday in Bulgaria give a grade of 4 to prices, quality and COVID-safety measures.
Those who vacationed abroad gave slightly higher grades to prices, quality of beach services and COVID-safety measures.
Some 70 per cent of respondents believe that Bulgarian summer tourism has a good or very good potential.
Of those who skipped holidays this past summer, nearly half said the issue was irrelevant to them, as many had financial considerations and slightly over a third feared COVID-19. The total adds up to more than 100 per cent because this was a multiple-choice question. RI/LN
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