Over 10 million tourists visited Kraków in 2015
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
03.12.2015 17:31
Over 10 million tourists visited Kraków, southern Poland, in 2015, marking a record year for the city, up 150,000 on last year.
Kraków's Main Market Square. Photo: Wikicommons/Dieter
The findings were presented on Thursday as part of the 26th Tourism Forum in the city.
Although visitor numbers are up, spending is down, as while tourists spent over PLN 4.45 billion (EUR 1 billion), this was PLN 50 million less than in 2014.
Of the 10,050,000 visitors to Kraków, over 7.4 million were Polish tourists, while over 2.6 million were from abroad.
Britons made up the largest group of tourists from abroad (15.76 percent), followed by Germans (13.16 percent).
There were declines in the number of tourists from Italy (from 10.2 percent in 2014 to 9.38 percent in 2015), Spain (10.8 percent to 7.96 percent) and Ukraine (4.5 percent to 1.63 percent).
However, there was an increase in the number of visitors from France (7.1 percent to 8.36 percent), Russia (from 2.9 percent to 4.08 percent, Belgium (from 2 percent to 2.29 percent), Sweden (1.6 percent to 2.75 percent). (nh/rk)
Source: krakow.pl