Hotels and other resources for accommodation in Republic of Bulgaria for period
1965 - 2002 year including


Data to 1th of January 2003
N on series Indexes 1965 1970 1980 1990 1992 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
1. Hotels for tourism without huts and bed base for social rest Common number: 185 291 572 603 309 1.230 1.298 1345 1.396 1.435
1.1. Beds in the hotels 29 300 49 356 80 625 114 262 118 800 134.200 135.850 136.980 138.400 146.550
1.2. In this quantity Private and Family hotels from 10 to 30 beds – number of hotels/ number of beds       24/630 270/ 9 100 624/ 15 400 682/ 15 850 715/ 17 200 740/ 18 100 780/ 20 200
2. Allocation of hotels by regions in the country
2.1. In this number on the Black sea – in % 38.20 46.50 54.28 55.31 55.42 54.5 55.40 57.20 58.5 58.3
2.2. In this number mountain in –
in %
4.50 4.40 4.02 4.89 4.98 6.2 7.56 8,30 9.5 9.6
2.3. In this number balneological – in % 4.50 4.60 3.28 2.93 3.42 3.85 3.64 3,85 4.0 4.1
2.4. In this number city/town hotels and motels –
in %
52.80 45.50 38.42 37.87 36.18 35.45 33.4 30,65 28.0 28.0
3. Category
3.1 One and two stars – in % 70.01 68.12 66.48 65.11 65.40 40 31.2 23.00 17.5 13.8
3.2. Three stars –
in %
29.99 26.38 26.72 24.99 23.58 37.2 41.2 47.10 49.5 51.2
3.3. Four stars –
in %
  4.30 6.16 7.32 8.44 18.5 22.5 24.10 26.0 27.0
3.4. Five stars –
in %
  1.20 1.74 2.68 2.68 4.3 5.1 5.80 7.0 8.0
4. Camping sites /number places for accommodation and camping/ 64 126 111 71 65 32 28 42 36 28.0
48.500 80.152 69.913 5.900 40.120 17.450 14.320 14.320 12.200 10.250
5. Local lodging departments and beds in private apartment found for accommodation of tourists and gests to 10 beds 21 51 64 99 104 68 76 85 92 96
30.100 70.832 151.292 148.704 120.000 120.300 105.400 110.200 114.320 118.560

Basic conclusions:

1. Past 1992 year is increasing number of hotels and places for accommodation in action, private, family and rural hotels.
2. Still considerable part of hotel base is with low category. The hotels with 1 and 2 stars till the 1th of January 2003 year are 13.8 %. It’s present that through next years will be made considerable investments for raising the category of moral and physical exhausted hotels and creating of better conditions for proposing of quality and varied basic and additional services. It’s suppose that in the end of 2003-year hotels with 4 and 5 stars will be over 35 %.
3. After finagling of privatization of country property in tourism is emerging durable trend for modernizing and reconstruction of old objects and increasing of its category. New build through 1997 – 2002 year hotels are constructing mostly in category one, two, three, four and five stars. Considerable part of them is new vacations settlements, club hotels, etc.
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