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In just one year after hitting a record high of 10 million foreign visitors in 2016, the number of visitors increased by 2.9 million to nearly 13 million for 2017.
Of this figure, the number of foreign visitors travelling by air jumped by 32.1% to 10.9 million, while tourists arriving by road surged by 19.5% to 1.8 million, however, visitors travelling by sea dropped by 9.1% to 258,800.
In terms of markets, visitors from Asia increased by 34.4% to more than 9.7 million, while tourist arrivals from the EU grew by 16.6% to 1,885,670, America (up 11.1% to 817,003), Australia (up 14.3% to 420,906), and Africa (up 25.6% to 35,881).
