International tourism revenues increased 16.04 per cent year-on-year for the first seven months of 2007, the State Tourism Agency said Sunday.

According to preliminary estimations, international tourism revenues stand at 1,347.4 million euro, BTA reports. The number of foreign tourists visiting Bulgaria from January to August 2007 rose 6.88 per cent year-on-year, and the number of tourists from the EU member-states increased 30.64 per cent compared to the same period of 2006.

Bulgaria was visited by a total of 3,972,020 foreign tourists (excluding transit passengers) for the January - August period, of which 73 per cent or 2,930,927 were citizens of EU member states.

Bulgarian citizens' expenditures for traveling abroad for the same period stood at 727 million euro, up 15.36 per cent year-on-year.

In the January - August 2007 period, Bulgarian citizens had a total of 2,868,317 visits abroad. The visits to the EU member states rose 11.22 per cent in the eight months of 2007 compared to the same period of 2006.

Bulgaria will take part in the Moscow International Travel and Tourism Exhibition MITT-2007 between September 25 and 28, said the State Tourism Agency. The exhibition is organized by Russia's Federal Tourism Agency. A total of 930 companies from 60 countries participated in the last year edition of the exhibition.

The State Tourism Agency organizes also Bulgaria's participation in the Top Resa Travel Market Show to tale place from September 26 to 28 in Deauville, France. Over 400 representatives of 71 countries took part in the exhibition last year.

The Bulgarian stall will also represent three Bulgarian tour operators. Last year the Bulgarian stall was visited by 83,062 French tourists, the statistic shows.