In 2025, there were 1.20 billion personal and professional trips by residents in the EU, a 1.4% increase from 2024 (+17 million trips). Of the total, 848 million were domestic trips (70% of the total), the latest Eurostat data show.
Some 264 million were foreign trips within the EU (22%), which means 92% of the trips made by EU residents were intra-EU.
Among EU countries, the highest shares of domestic trips of the total number of trips were recorded in Romania (89%), Spain (87%), and Greece, France and Portugal (each 85%). The lowest share was in Luxembourg at only 5%, followed by Belgium (29%) and Malta (32%). 8% of trips had a destination outside the EU, of which less than half were outside Europe.
Although domestic trips outnumbered foreign trips, total expenditure was higher for foreign trips. In 2025, EU residents spent EUR 266.2 billion on domestic trips and EUR 379.4 billion on foreign trips.
For domestic trips, accommodation and transport made up more than half of the expenditure, 34% (EUR 90.3 billion) and 21% (EUR 56.0 billion), respectively. During foreign trips, EU residents spent more on accommodation (35%; EUR 131.3 billion) and transport (32%; EUR 121.5 billion) than they did on domestic trips.
In Bulgaria, the number of trips made by residents for personal or business purposes, both domestically and abroad, reached 5,427,162 in 2025, an increase of 2.1% compared with the previous year, according to Eurostat data.
The number of trips abroad made by Bulgarian residents amounted to 1,489,122, up by 9.1% compared with 2024. Of these, 66.6% (991,532 trips) were to another EU country.
Almost one third of the trips made by Bulgarian residents in 2025 (27.4%) were abroad, while the remaining 72.6% were domestic trips.
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