The majority (82.3%) of them travelled only within the country, 14.5% - only abroad and 3.2% - both in the country and abroad. Compared to the same quarter of 2016 the total number of the travelled persons aged 15 and over increased by 31.2%, as the number of the Bulgarian residents travelled only in the country increased by 32.8%, travelled only abroad - by 43.3% while the number of persons travelled both in the country and abroad decreased by 21.6%.
In the third quarter of 2017, most Bulgarians aged 25 - 44 years traveled - 948.6 thousand or 47.7% of all traveled persons. In all age groups predominated the share of the trips in the country, as the highest was this share among the persons aged 25 - 44 years - 83.3% from the travelled in this age group.
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