Still, those are two different countries.
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Still, those are two different countries.
but really tourists have a very bad image of monkeydonia at the moment so how do you expect tourism to rise?
No, we're not same just like Croats and Serbs are not same. I say Bulgarians are our brothers because of our good relations. No wars between Bulgarians and Macedonians except a brief liberation war in WW2 but that's nothing compared to the bloodbath that occurred between Croatia and Serbia.
If it has a bad image then it is from Albanians than anything. Tourists do have to watch out for Albanian traffickers who might kidnap them and prostitute them out in Italy...
Statistics
The Republic of Macedonia experiences a constant increase of visitors. The number of domestic tourists in the period from January to March 2008 compared to the same period of the previous year, increased 23.5%. While the number of foreign tourists in March 2008 compared to March 2007 increased 44.7%.[2] In 2007, Lake Ohrid had received about 250,000 domestic and foreign tourists.[3]
In February 2009, nearly 28,000 tourists, or 3.2% more than the same month last year, visited Macedonia. There was also an 8% increase in the number of foreign visitors to the country.[4]
The summer of 2009 was the city of Dojran's best tourist season with 135,000 overnight visitors, an increase of 12.5% compared to the previous year.[5]
The number of tourists in Macedonia in May 2010 increased by 0.8% from the same month in the previous year.[6]
The number of foreign tourists visiting Macedonia between the months of January and July increased by 25% in 2011 compared to the same period in 2010. The average amount of nights spent in the country by these tourists also rose, by 33.2%.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism...c_of_Macedonia
Tourism in Macedonia is a tricky situation. How much of the number is from Emigrants and their families returning home from vacation? Those are the people that the gov't of Fyrom should look to bring as they are the ones that are going to invest in the country more. I know that ALOT of albanians come back to Macedonia in the summer and some in the winter