{"id":5008,"date":"2013-02-06T16:19:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T14:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:05:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:05:38","slug":"istanbul-tourists-5008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/istanbul-tourists-5008\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0130stanbul hosts 18 pct more tourists in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/istanbul-tourist.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5009\" alt=\"\u0130stanbul hosts 18 pct more tourists in January\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/istanbul-tourist-280x220.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" title=\"\"><\/a>Steadily increasing its appeal for tourists worldwide, \u0130stanbul saw the number of foreign visitors in January increase by 18 percent over the same month a year ago, reaching more than 532,000, data from the local tourism office showed on Monday.<\/h1>\n<p>According to data provided by the \u0130stanbul Culture and Tourism Directorate on Monday, \u0130stanbul hosted 532,726 foreign visitors in the first month of this year. One interesting detail in the data was that the number of tourists who arrived in \u0130stanbul by sea had increased by 400 percent in the same period. Observers pointed to increasing cruise-ship traffic to \u0130stanbul over the past months.<\/p>\n<p>In the list of countries that sent the highest number of visitors to \u0130stanbul in January, 7.7 percent came from Germany, followed by Russia with 7.3 percent and the UK with 4.1 percent. The US came in fourth with 4 percent while the North African country of Libya made it into the top five in the list with 3.9 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Evaluating the figures, directorate manager Ahmet Emre Bilgili said the early encouraging figures will boost morale in the city&#8217;s tourism sector and that \u0130stanbul looked to attract even more visitors this year compared to 2012. The number of visitors to \u0130stanbul hit 9.5 million in 2012, with authorities expecting this figure exceed 10 million this year.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0130stanbul saw the number of foreign visitors in January increase by 18 percent over the same month a year ago, reaching more than 532,000, data from the local tourism office showed on Monday.<\/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":[7867,137,7],"tags":[7875,7883],"class_list":["post-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkey","category-sectoral","category-tourism","tag-istanbul","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008","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=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8304,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions\/8304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}