{"id":6726,"date":"2018-06-01T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T06:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=6726"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:06:26","slug":"nearly-8m-foreigners-visit-turkey-in-the-first-four-months-of-2018-tourism-ministry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/nearly-8m-foreigners-visit-turkey-in-the-first-four-months-of-2018-tourism-ministry-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 8M foreigners visit Turkey in the first four months of 2018, tourism ministry says"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nearly<\/p>\n

Nearly 8 million foreigners visited Turkey in the first four months of 2018, the Culture and Tourism Ministry announced.<\/h2>\n

The ministry said that the figure rose by 32.55 percent on a yearly basis, up from 5.87 million in January-April last year.<\/p>\n

Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city by population and one of its top tourist draws, saw the highest number of visitors, with nearly 3.9 million in the four-month period.<\/p>\n

The Mediterranean resort city Antalya came in second, with 1.06 million foreign visitors.<\/p>\n

As for the nationalities of foreign visitors, Iran took first place with 11.02 percent — some 860,000 visitors — over the same period, followed by Germany (8.63 percent) and Georgia (8.37 percent).<\/p>\n

Official data showed that air was the preferred means of transport, with 8.23 million travelers, while 3.5 million used roads and around 235,000 came by sea.<\/p>\n

In April, 2.65 million foreigners also visited the country, up 28.27 percent from April 2017.<\/p>\n

In 2016, some 35 million foreigners visited the country, in the midst of a tourism slowdown after the Fetullah Terrorist Organization’s (FETO) defeated coup, but the sector improved in 2017<\/p>\n

Turkey expects 40 million tourists from abroad this year, according to private sector representatives and officials.<\/p>\n

Culture and Tourism Minister Numan Kurtulmus has set the country’s 2023 targets as 50 million tourists and $50 billion in income.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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