Record number of tourists visiting Slovakia in 2017

A record number of both domestic and foreign tourists - 5.4 million - visited Slovakia last year, an increase of 7 percent compared to 2016, TASR learnt from the Transport and Construction Ministry on Thursday. Slovak tourists made up 60 percent of all tourists. According to Transport Minister Árpád Érsek (Most-Hid), whose remit includes tourism, another successful tourism season shows that this sector has been developing in a positive way in Slovakia. Regarding foreign tourists, Czech visitors topped the list (more than 645,000), followed by Poles (more than 209,000), Germans, Hungarians and Austrians. The ministry pointed out that the number of tourists from China had exceeded 61,000 last year, which is twice as many as in 2016. The most attractive Slovak towns and cities and their surroundings were Bratislava, Poprad, Liptovský Mikuláš, Košice and Žilina.