More Russians and Ex-Yugoslavs at Health Resorts in First Nine Months

Slovenian natural health resorts are happy with the number of visitors and overnight stays generated over the last nine months, which were up compared to the same period in 2007.

In the first nine months Slovenian natural health resorts welcomed 488,748 domestic and foreign visitors, marking a 4.5-percent increase over 2007. Domestic tourist arrivals were up by 6.8 percent, foreign by 1.7 percent. There were 2,133,875 registered overnight stays in the first nine months, which is 80,618 or 3.9 percent more than in the same period last year. The natural health resorts together reached the occupancy rate of 66 percent in September.
The most numerous were foreign visitors from Italy, with 62,463 arrivals accounting for 29 percent of all foreign arrivals; followed by Austria, with 55,571 arrivals or a 25.8-percent share, Croatia with 22,102 arrivals (10.3-percent share) and Germany, with 17,061 tourist arrivals accounting for 7.9 percent of all foreign arrivals.
If a comparison is drawn on the basis of registered overnight stays, Russians are far ahead. They generated an average of 9.6 overnight stays, or in other words, 6,997 tourist arrivals translated into 67,704 overnight stays.
The biggest increase was recorded by tourists from former Yugoslavia, with overnight stays up by 42 percent, followed by Russians with a 21-percent increase. It is on these two markets that sales promotion will focus over the next weeks, when most of the Slovenian natural health resorts will be presented at workshops organised by the Slovenian Tourist Board (STB) and will meet with tour operators and agencies from Russia and former Yugoslavia. Special attention will also be given to the large-scale advertising campaign in Bavaria organised by the Slovenian Tourist Board Office in Germany in association with the tourism industry.

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