Foreign tourists rediscover Bruges – Asian tourists the challenge for 2023 | VRT NWS: news

Tourism in Bruges continues to recover. Visitor numbers at Bruges Museums again shot higher during the past year. In all nearly 700,000 people visited one of the museums in the western city. The figure continues to edge higher and is heading towards the record high of 900,000 set in 2019 – the last year before the pandemic brought tourist activity to a virtual halt in Bruges and many other Flemish tourist towns.