Tourism
It was registered a total number of 184647 tourists in 2011. Up by 14.2% against 2010. The domestic tourism registered 37764 tourists, up by 6.1% against 2010. The incoming tourism registered 10788 foreigners visiting Moldova in 2011, their number risen up by 20.5% comparing to 2010. Most of foreign tourists were from: Romania (14,8%), Russia (13,0%), Ukraine (11,0%), Germany (9,3%), USA (5,2%), Turkey (4,4%), Italy (4,1%), Poland (3,4%), UK (3,3%), Sweden (3,1%), Bulgaria (2,7%), Japan (2,4%), France (2,3%) and the Netherlands (2,0%). There are 15000 sights and 300 natural zones within Moldova, which represent a great potential for domestic and international tourists.
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“In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.”
—Robert Runcie (b. 1921)