{"id":1840,"date":"2009-11-23T17:41:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T15:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2009-11-23T17:41:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T15:41:18","slug":"foreign-visitors-to-turkey-rise-6-28-pct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/foreign-visitors-to-turkey-rise-6-28-pct\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign visitors to Turkey rise 6.28 pct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/turkey-tourism.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1841\" title=\"Turkey Tourism\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/turkey-tourism-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey Tourism\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>The number of foreign visitors to Turkey rose 6.28 percent year-on-year in October to 2.62 million, the Tourism Ministry said on Monday, pointing to a possible recovery in the important sector.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The number of visitors, who provide a key source of foreign currency for Turkey, rose 1.96 percent to 24.45 million in the first 10 months of the year, the ministry also said.<\/p>\n<p>The number of tourists declined as much as 7.5 percent year-on-year earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rise in the number of tourists coming to Turkey, revenues from the industry fell 4.6 percent from a year earlier to $9.526 billion in the high-season third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism receipts rose 18.5 percent last year to almost $22 billion, or 3 percent of gross domestic product.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 26.336 million tourists visited Turkey in 2008, making it one of the top destinations in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of foreign visitors to Turkey rose 6.28 percent year-on-year in October to 2.62 million&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}