As many as 679,783 tourists have visited Bulgaria by the end of May, up 26.01% on the like figure for 1999.Their increase in the month of May alone was 23.18%, the press office of the Economy Ministry said. The biggest number of tourists came from Macedonia - 238,071, followed by Greeks - 123,907. Percentage-wise, the biggest increase was registered in the number of Canadian tourists - by 187.2% to 2,088. Bulgaria was visited by 25,839 German tourists in the first five months of 2000, 20.2% up on the like 1999 figure. During the period under review, the country was visited by 7,585 Russian tourists (up 52.3%) and by 18,280 British tourists (up 12.7%). The number of Belgian tourists has almost doubled. Also on the rise is the number of tourists from Ukraine, France, Yugoslavia, Turkey, the Netherlands, the US, Italy, Denmark, Israel, Norway, Poland, Spain and Portugal. Proceeds from international tourism in the first quarter of 2000 totalled USD 158 million, up 14.5% on the like 1999 figure