{"id":5079,"date":"2013-04-03T21:37:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T18:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:05:34","slug":"tourists-istanbul-5079","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/tourists-istanbul-5079\/","title":{"rendered":"Record number of tourists visit \u0130stanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/istanbul-turist.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5081\" alt=\"Record number of tourists visit \u0130stanbul\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/istanbul-turist-340x219.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"219\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/istanbul-turist-340x219.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/istanbul-turist-464x300.jpg 464w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/istanbul-turist.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>Almost a million people chose Turkey&#8217;s financial and cultural capital \u0130stanbul as their tourist destination this quarter, a record number in the past 10 years.<\/h1>\n<p>The \u0130stanbul Cultural and\u00a0Tourism\u00a0Directorate said on Tuesday that at least 838,201 tourists visited \u0130stanbul in the first three months of this year, a 23.8 percent increase compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The directorate hailed the progress made by \u0130stanbul in the\u00a0tourism\u00a0sector at a time when an economic recession was ongoing in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The data also showed that two out of every three tourists who came to Turkey between Oct. 2012 and March 2013 visited \u0130stanbul.<\/p>\n<p>On the list of countries with the highest number of visitors to \u0130stanbul in the first quarter, 10 percent came from Germany, followed by Russia with 6 percent and the UK with 4 percent. The US came in fourth with 4 percent and France fifth with 4 percent.<br \/>\nThe number of visitors to \u0130stanbul hit 9.5 million in 2012, with authorities expecting this figure exceed 10 million this year.<\/p>\n<p>Tourists are expected to spend at least $11 billion this year. This figure, however, is roughly half the spending seen in international shopping capitals London and New York, which topped the list at $21.1 and $19.4 billion respectively.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a million people chose Turkey&#8217;s financial and cultural capital \u0130stanbul as their tourist destination this quarter, a record number in the past 10 years.<\/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":[7867,137,3,7],"tags":[7875,7883],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkey","category-sectoral","category-shopping","category-tourism","tag-istanbul","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079","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=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8300,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions\/8300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}