In the first ten months of this year, almost 2.2 million tourists visited Serbia, which is a growth compared to the same period last year of 34.5 percent.
Of that number, 1.4 million are domestic guests, more than 719,000 tourists came from abroad, and more than seven million overnight stays were realized, which is an increase of less than 27 percent, according to the SBS data. Exactly the same increase in the number of guests was recorded in October compared to the same month last year.
Looking at the place of residence, almost all types of tourist places, from big cities, through spas to mountains, recorded growth, in Belgrade and Novi Sad it was from 66 to 69 percent, in spa places the growth was 23.4 percent.
In the first 10 months, the most visited spa was Vrnjacka Banja with more than 236,000 guests, which is a growth of 19.5 percent, less than 149,000 tourists visited Sokobanja, which is 25.8 percent more.
Some spas, such as Mataruška, had a drastic growth if you look at the percentages of as much as 360 percent, although in ten months this spa hosted only 444 guests. The growth of 125 percent in the first 10 months of this year was recorded by Banja Rusanda, while they had a slight decline in the number of tourists in Gornja Trepca and Prolom Banja, but also a slightly larger decline in Gamzigradska, Sijarinska, Ribarska and Selters.
There have been 470,000 guests in the mountains since the beginning of the year, more than a third on Zlatibor, which records an increase in the number of guests, just like Tara, Rudnik, Mokra Gora, Zlatar. Kopaonik had a slight drop in the number of guests in 10 months in 2021, only 0.1 percent, a slightly larger drop was in Divčibare and Stara Planina, where there were 21.5 percent fewer guests.
Most foreign guests came from Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than 84,000, from Russia in 10 months there were more than 50,000 in our country, slightly less tourists from Germany and Montenegro.
From many countries, we record a growth in the number of guests of more than 100 percent, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Hungary, Poland, Northern Macedonia, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, the United States.
However, the growth from some countries was even higher – 322 percent more guests were from Brazil and 313 percent more from Ukraine in the first ten months of this year compared to the same period last year.
The drop in the number of guests this year is recorded by tourists from Bulgaria, Greece, China and Israel, from where 40 fewer guests came to Serbia than last year, Danas reports.
