More than 850 thousand Belarusians officially vacationed abroad in 2018. That is about 100 thousand more people than in 2017. The data concerns only those who bought a tour. They are cited in the latest Belstat collection “Tourism and Tourist Resources in the Republic of Belarus”. Every year, more and more Belarusians travel abroad for vacation. In 2018 there were 850,724 of them, in 2017 — 727,536 people, and in 2016 — 495,727. Last year, Belarusians most often went to Egypt for vacation: 211,962 people. That is almost twice as many as the year before. Turkey is second in popularity among Belarusians. In 2018, 151,393 Belarusians vacationed there. Then comes Ukraine, with 122,137 Belarusians who went there on holiday. The top 10 countries for Belarusians to vacation in 2018 looks like this:
- Egypt — 211,962 people
- Turkey — 151,393 people
- Ukraine — 122,137 people
- Bulgaria — 49 821 people
- Russia — 47,033 people
- Spain — 32,228 people
- Poland — 30,245 people
- Greece — 28,080 people
- Georgia — 16,380 people
- Montenegro — 16,188 people
365,534 tourists came to Belarus in 2018. That is more than in 2017 by over 80 thousand people. Most often, tourists from Russia came to us: there were 207,416 of them. Lithuanians are in second place, with 59,564 people. Poles are in third place, with 46,305 people from there. Source.