OREANDA-NEWS. August 19, 2014. As it was informed in the National Bureau of statistics, they were visited by 69.3 thousand Moldovan tourists (62.6% of the total) and 41.5 thousand foreign (37,4%).

 In comparison with January-June 2013 the number of visitors of hostels has reduced (-38,8%), as well as tourism and agro-tourism pensions (-37,7%), camps (-13,1%). At the same time, increased the number of visitors of hotels and motels (+4.1%), and health structures (+5,9%). Collective tourist accommodation, classified by the stars, in January-June 2014 accepted 66,6 thousand tourists, or 60.1% of all tourists (at the same period of 2013, they accounted for 57.3% of the total number of tourists).

Most foreign tourists who used the services of collective accommodation structures of Moldova in the first 6 months of 2014 arrived from Romania - 25,1%, followed by the Ukraine (10,5%), Russia (9%), United States (7.3%), Italy (5.5%), Germany (4.8%), Turkey (3.6%), UK (3%), France (2.5%), Poland (2,4%), Bulgaria (1.7%), Israel (1,5%), etc. The number of overnight stays in collective accommodation structures in January-June 2014 amounted to 546,8 thousand, or 6.2% less than at the same period of 2013.

Approximately 83.1% of overnight stays accounted for the Moldovan tourists. In the first half of 2014, the occupancy rate in collective structures for the reception of tourists made up 28.9%. In particular, in the health structures this figure made 60%, in hostels for visitors - 48,8%, in children's camps - 41,2%, hotels and motels - 16.5%, in tourist villas and other rest structures-11.8%, in the tourism and agro-tourism pensions-8.6%.