The number of tourists and excursion goers participating in tourism organized by Moldovan travel agencies and tour operators represented 173,400 thousand people in January-June 2023, an increase of 22.1% compared to the similar period last year, the National Bureau of Statistics reported.

Inbound tourism saw an increase of 58.6% tourists. In the case of outbound tourism, the increase was 22.2%, and domestic tourism increased by 11.1%.

In January-June 2023, compared to the similar period of last year, revenues of travel agencies and tour operators from outbound tourism increased by 347.1 million lei (+38.6%), domestic tourism by 22.1 million lei (+39.9%), and receiving tourism by 1.3 million lei (+8.9%). Revenues from tourism in the reporting period exceeded 1.4 times the revenues recorded by travel agencies in January-June 2019, the last year before the pandemic.